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TENEMENT DISTRICT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tenement district mean?
• TENEMENT DISTRICT (noun)
The noun TENEMENT DISTRICT has 1 sense:
1. a residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses
Familiarity information: TENEMENT DISTRICT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("tenement district" is a kind of...):
community; residential area; residential district (a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences)
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