| 单词 | tenement of houses |
| 释义 | > as lemmastenement of houses b. In Scotland, more particularly applied to a large house (i.e. edifice under one roof) constructed or adapted to be let in portions to a number of tenants, each portion so separately occupied being considered and called a ‘house’. Called also tenement of houses, land of houses (= tenement house n. at Compounds).Thus a ‘house’ in England may form one ‘tenement’, or contain a number of ‘tenements’ (and is then a ‘tenement house’: see Compounds); in Scotland, a ‘tenement’ may form one ‘house’, or contain a number of ‘houses’ or dwellings. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > block of flats or apartments land1456 tenement1681 tenement house1858 barrack1862 mansions1868 apartment house1874 apartment building1883 single-decker1896 block dwellings1899 project1932 apartment block1955 condominium1962 condo1964 multi1973 1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. ii. vii. §6 When divers Owners have parts of the same Tenement, it cannot be said to be a perfect division, because the Roof remaineth Roof to both, and the ground supporteth both. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Tenement..often denoting a building which includes several separate dwellings; as a tenement of houses. 1825 R. Chambers Trad. Edinb. 172 How the great of the land could live in the fourth and fifth flats of wooden tenements, the various apartments of which, as occupied at present by humble mechanics, seem confined and inconvenient to the last degree. 1841 in J. Rankine Treat. Ownership Lands Scotl. (1879) xxxiii. 509 Houses so often found in Scotland, called technically ‘lands’, or ‘tenements of land’—terms which have been defined as applicable to ‘a single or individual building, although containing several dwelling-houses, with, it may be, separate means of access, but under the same roof and enclosed by the same gables or walls’. 1910 Scotsman 8 Oct. 3/3 For Sale by Public Roup..(1) Six self-contained Dwelling Houses... (2) House, No. 27 St. Bernard's Crescent... (3) Tenement, No. 12 St. Bernard's Crescent. < as lemmas |
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