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Tenement vs Lodgings - What's the difference?

tenement | lodgings |

As nouns the difference between tenement and lodgings

is that tenement is a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one while lodgings is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals.

tenement

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one
  • (legal) any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned
  • (figurative) Dwelling; abode; habitation.
  • * John Locke
    • Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement , unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece?

    Synonyms

    * (building) tenement house, apartment building

    Derived terms

    * servient tenement

    See also

    (Wikipedia) * rooming house

    References

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    lodgings

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • English plurals
  • A room or set of rooms in another person's house where a person lodges.
  • *, chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
  • An official residence.

    • Synonyms

    * (l) (colloquial)

    Anagrams

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