tenement 的定义
- Also called tenement house . 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.tenements, freehold interests in things immovable considered as subjects of property.
- British. an apartment or room rented by a tenant.
- Archaic. any abode or habitation.
tenement 近义词
apartment house
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- She got involved with the early labor movement and with tenement reform.
- You've seen gingerbread houses...but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement?
- The road led to an old fashioned, high gabled farm-house at the foot of the hill; the only tenement visible from that lonely spot.
- Sam was lowered first to the roof of the tenement which we have said was already on fire, and stood ready to receive Liz.
- Looking back through the rear window, he saw Carlson turn up a narrow walk between two tenement buildings.
- Governor Street was just as dirty and squalid as any other tenement-house street in the poorer section of a middle-class city.
- He has a wife and seven children living down on Governor Street, in a miserable tenement.