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TOEFL BNC: 12452 COCA: 14363

tenement

Word family 
Related topics: Buildings
ten·e·ment /ˈtenəmənt/ noun [countableC]  
TBBBUILDa large building divided into apartments, especially in the poorer areas of a city 〔尤指城市贫民区的〕公寓大楼
tenement building/house/block 公寓楼/房屋/大楼
Examples from the Corpus
tenement• She lived in a red-brick tenement in Chelsea, an old walk-up building with gloomy stairwells and peeling paint on the walls.• One result was a considerable amount of low-cost tenement building by philanthropic associations in the cities from the early 1880s.• In her tenement there lived a rich man.• The home was not for most a country house or a cottage, but a town villa or tenement.• The houses in the suburbs have wonderful amenities, unlike the overcrowded tenements of places like Hoboken.• Old powdery tenements fell to the ground.• These tenements are barely fit to live among, never mind to starve in, for want of the extra rent.• I still officially resided in four tiny rooms on the first floor of a West Village tenement.
tenement building/house/block• Although different, I wanted to capture something of the sensation of being high up in a tenement block overlooking London.• One result was a considerable amount of low-cost tenement building by philanthropic associations in the cities from the early 1880s.• Flashback to 30 March 1968: two kids playing in a deserted tenement block discover a corpse.• On the left is the first tenement block to be built in Prague in 1813-47 and designed by J. Hausknecht.• It was on the top floor of one of those grim tenement blocks.• She lived in a big old tenement block.• He found himself walking slowly through narrow and murky slum streets flanked by tall tenement houses.• An urchin showed her which tenement house was his.
From Longman Business Dictionary
tenementten·e·ment /ˈtenəmənt/ noun
1[uncountableU]LAWPROPERTY REAL PROPERTY (=land and buildings) belonging to one owner
2[countableC]LAWPROPERTY a house
3[countableC]PROPERTY a large building divided into apartments, especially in a poor area of a city
He was owner and manager of a tenement in the Bronx.
Origin tenement
(1300-1400) Old French “tenure”, from Medieval Latin tenementum, from Latin tenere; → TENOR
ten·e·ment noun
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TOEFL BNC: 12452 COCA: 14363
tenement

noun

ADJECTIVE | TENEMENT + NOUN | PREPOSITION ADJECTIVE➤cramped, overcrowded, squalid逼仄的／擁擠不堪的／骯髒的廉租公寓▸➤crumbling, dilapidated, old, ramshackle, run-down搖搖欲墜的／破落的／老舊的／嚴重失修的／破敗不堪的廉租公寓➤abandoned廢棄的廉租公寓TENEMENT + NOUN➤apartment, block, building, flat, house, housing廉租公寓樓；廉租大樓；經濟公寓；經濟住房PREPOSITION➤in a/the tenement在廉租公寓裏◇families living in overcrowded tenements住在擁擠不堪的廉租公寓裏的家庭
TOEFL BNC: 12452 COCA: 14363
TOEFL BNC: 12452 COCA: 14363

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