Maisonette vs. Tenement — What's the Difference?

A set of rooms for living in, typically on two storeys of a larger building and having a separate entrance.

A tenement is a type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access, on the British Isles notably common in Scotland. In the medieval Old Town, in Edinburgh, tenements were developed with each apartment treated as a separate house, built on top of each other (such as Gladstone's Land).

A small house.

A building for human habitation, especially one that is rented to tenants.

An apartment occupying two or more floors of a larger building and often having its own entrance from outside.

A rundown, low-rental apartment building whose facilities and maintenance barely meet minimum standards.

A small house

Chiefly British An apartment or room leased to a tenant.

An apartment often on two floors

(Law) A property of a permanent nature that is possessed or owned, such as land or a building, along with the rights associated with such possession or ownership.

A self-contained apartment (usually on two floors) in a larger house and with its own entrance from the outside

A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.

A small house

(legal) Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.

(figurative) Dwelling; abode; habitation.

That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.

Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; - called also free tenements or frank tenements.

A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.

Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.

A tenement house.

A rundown apartment house barely meeting minimal standards