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Meaning of Tenement in Portuguese :

tenement

1

cortiço

NOUN
Synonyms: slum, flophouse
  • They lived in a tenement in filth. Eles viveram num cortiço de porcarias.
  • Now she lives in a tenement. Hoje ela vive num cortiço.
  • Go and live in a tenement, then. Vá morar num cortiço, então.
  • ... it - Like to a tenement on a pelting farm. ... -lo.como um cortiço em uma fazenda decadente.
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More meaning of Tenement

1. Slum

slum

I)

favela

NOUN
Synonyms: ghetto, shantytown
  • I was in a slum. Estava no meio de uma favela.
  • The gangster from our slum? O gangster da nossa favela?
  • I lived in a slum all my life! Vivi em uma favela por toda a minha vida!
  • Right in the middle of this godforsaken slum. Bem no meu desta favela esquecida.
  • That used to be our slum. Aquela era nossa favela.
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II)

precário

NOUN
Synonyms: precarious
III)

cortiço

NOUN
Synonyms: tenement, flophouse
  • ... this is not a slum! ... isso não é um cortiço!
IV)

pocilga

NOUN
Synonyms: dump, pigsty, shithole, sty, pigpen, rathole, cesspool
  • This is no slum! Isto não é uma pocilga!
  • My idea, to move into an industrial slum? Minha ideia, mudares-te para uma pocilga industrial?
2. Flophouse

flophouse

I)

flophouse

NOUN
II)

pulgueiro

NOUN
Synonyms: fleabag
  • That doesn't make it a flophouse. Isto não o faz um pulgueiro.
  • It's not a flophouse. Não é um pulgueiro.
III)

cortiço

NOUN
Synonyms: tenement, slum
  • What kind of flophouse is your mother running here? Que tipo de cortiço sua mãe tem aqui?
IV)

espelunca

NOUN
Synonyms: dump, shithole, dive, rat hole, racket, hellhole
  • But a transient flophouse like this? Mas uma espelunca destas?
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