tenement

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one.
    — He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements.
  2. Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned.
    — The island of Brecqhou is a tenement of Sark.
  3. A dwelling; abode; habitation. figuratively
    — Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece?

词形变化

tenements plural

词汇关系

衍生词
servient tenement tenemental tenementary tenemented tenementer tenementlike
相关词
rooming house

词源

From Middle English tenement, from Anglo-Norman tenement (“holding”), from Old French tenement, from Medieval Latin tenimentum, from Latin teneō (“hold”).
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