tenement house

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

唐楼,租房,唐人街,唐人街的房子

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : 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.

as inhousing project

Synonyms

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.