Apartment and Tenement house

Apartment

Apartment noun - A room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place.
Usage example: a spacious six-room apartment that occupies the entire upper floor of a two-family house
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Synonyms for Apartment

Tenement house and apartment are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tenement house" instead a noun "Apartment".

Tenement house

Tenement house noun - A run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards.
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Synonyms for Tenement house

Apartment and tenement house are semantically related. You can use "Apartment" instead a noun phrase "Tenement house".
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