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tenement

/ten-uh-muhnt/US // ˈtɛn ə mənt //UK // (ˈtɛnəmənt) //

租房,出租房,出租屋,租户

Related Words

coop鸡舍,鸡笼,协同slum贫民窟,贫民区high-rise高层建筑,高层,高楼,高楼大厦boarding house寄宿舍,宿舍,寄宿家庭,寄宿家庭旅馆flat平坦的,平地,平坦,平的cooperative合作性,合作,合作性的,合作的dump倾倒,倾销,转储,甩掉pad垫子,衬垫,垫,垫板den穴位,窝点,巢穴,书店rental租金,租赁,出租,租用digs挖掘,挖掘机,掘金,挖矿

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounapartment house
Forms: tenements
Synonyms
boarding house寄宿舍,宿舍,寄宿家庭,寄宿家庭旅馆coop鸡舍,鸡笼,协同high-rise高层建筑,高层,高楼,高楼大厦slum贫民窟,贫民区cooperative合作性,合作,合作性的,合作的den穴位,窝点,巢穴,书店digs挖掘,挖掘机,掘金,挖矿dump倾倒,倾销,转储,甩掉flat平坦的,平地,平坦,平的pad垫子,衬垫,垫,垫板rental租金,租赁,出租,租用apartment complex公寓大楼,公寓楼,公寓楼群,公寓综合体high-rise apartment buildingliving quarters宿舍,居住的,生活的宿舍,生活的宿舍里project housing项目住房,项目房屋,项目房,项目住宅

Examples

  • 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.

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