- a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.
- Law.
- any species of permanent property, as lands, houses, rents, an office, or a franchise, that may be held of another.
- freehold interests in things immovable considered as subjects of property.
- an apartment or room rented by a tenant.
- any abode or habitation.
- (now esp in Scotland) a large building divided into separate flats
- a dwelling place or residence, esp one intended for rent
- a room or flat for rent
- any form of permanent property, such as land, dwellings, offices, etc
