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单词 tenement
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tenement

noun

ten·​e·​ment ˈte-nə-mənt How to pronounce tenement (audio)
1
a
: tenement house
b
: apartment, flat
c
: a house used as a dwelling : residence
2
: any of various forms of corporeal property (such as land) or incorporeal property that is held by one person from another
3
: dwelling

Synonyms

  • apartment
  • diggings [chiefly British]
  • digs
  • flat [chiefly British]
  • lodgings
  • suite
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Example Sentences

an exhibit of pictures showing the tenements of the New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen during the 1920s
Recent Examples on the Web Frankfurter, who had worked briefly as a tenement inspector and had seen up close the squalor and indignity of modern industrial life, was outraged. John Fabian Witt, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022 His neighbors were the Hells Angels, who had purchased the tenement next to him presumably for next to nothing in 1969. John Tamny, Forbes, 18 May 2022 For decades, tenement dwellers had only basic protection from fire but almost none from disease. Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021 There’s not going to be a tenement or a blue dress or spools of thread at 10 cents each. Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, The Atlantic, 21 June 2022 The story of the Royal Park is, in part, a story of how what was once a tenement came to be a flash point in the city’s long-running fight against building owners who illegally rent out rooms to tourists instead of long-term residents. New York Times, 28 Mar. 2022 Instead, tenement scenes—from the inside looking out. Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, The Atlantic, 21 June 2022 Vuong was 2 years old in 1990 when his family left Ho Chi Minh City for Hartford, Connecticut, settling in a one-room apartment in tenement housing. WSJ, 29 Mar. 2022 The cacophony and oppressive heat were the same for the woman who had packed her meager possessions in a tenement on the Lower East Side and the one who had directed her maid to prepare her trunks in the parlor of a Fifth Avenue mansion. April White, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English, "the holding of property, the property so held, building, dwelling," borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Medieval Latin tenementum, tenimentum, teneamentum, from Latin tenēre "to hold, occupy, possess" + -mentum -ment — more at tenant entry 1

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Kids Definition

tenement

noun

ten·​e·​ment ˈte-nə-mənt How to pronounce tenement (audio)
: a building divided into separate apartments for rent

Legal Definition

tenement

noun

ten·​e·​ment ˈte-nə-mənt How to pronounce tenement (audio)
1
a
: any of various forms of property (as land) that is held by one person from another
b
: an estate in property
2
: dwelling

History and Etymology for tenement

Anglo-French, from Old French, from Medieval Latin tenementum, from Latin tenēre to hold

tenement

noun

as in apartment
a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place an exhibit of pictures showing the tenements of the New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen during the 1920s

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