单词 | fourplex |
释义 | fourplex in British English (ˈfɔːplɛks) noun US dialect a residential building containing four separate units The new Mowat home was a ground-floor apartment in a brick fourplex on Victoria Avenue. fourplex in American English (ˈfɔrpleks, ˈfour-) noun Architecture quadplex Word origin [1970–75; four + -plex, abstracted from duplex (apartment), in place of quadruplex]This word is first recorded in the period 1970–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Heimlich maneuver, consciousness-raising, good old boy, postmodernism, stress test |
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