TENEMENTS Synonyms

• footwear (shoes or slippers) with no heel (or a very low heel)

• structures collectively in which people are housed

• a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component

• stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse

• temporary living quarters

• making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances

• a settlement of differences

• in the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality

• living quarters provided for public convenience

• the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need

• (physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the natural lens of the eye

• a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

• a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place

• the act of constructing something

• the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones

• the occupants of a building

• housing that someone is living in

• any address at which you dwell more than temporarily

• the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president)

• the act of dwelling in a place

• a large and imposing house

• a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards

• a building that is divided into apartments