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Tenement vs Homestead - What's the difference?

tenement | homestead |

As nouns the difference between tenement and homestead

is that tenement is a building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one while homestead is a house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm.

As a verb homestead is

to acquire or settle on land as a homestead.

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

    * ----

    homestead

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia homestead) (en noun)
  • a house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm
    • (Dryden)
  • the place that is one's home
  • (South Africa) A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family
  • The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
  • * W. Tooke
    • We can trace them back to a homestead on the Rivers Volga and Ural.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To acquire or settle on land as a homestead.

    • See also

    * hstead * homesteading * smallholding