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单词 tenement house
释义

tenement house

noun

: apartment building
especially : one meeting minimum standards of sanitation, safety, and comfort and usually located in a city

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The novel consists of four interweaving stories revolving around the lives of a group of New Yorkers who live in a fictional tenement house, many of whom are Jewish and/or immigrants. Carson Burton, Variety, 1 Sep. 2022 Lennox was raised in a two-room tenement house and a council flat in Scotland. Allison Stewart, Washington Post, 30 June 2022 The house in which the President died was a plain brick tenement house, of three stories, and basement. Jason Emerson, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2022 After Samuel Pickman died in 1687, it was owned for many years by a surgeon, became a boarding house, and for about 150 years was an apartment tenement house. BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2021 Plumbing and sewage systems, paired with tenement house reform, helped remove excrement from the public streets. Katherine A. Foss, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020 If influenza develops in a hotel or tenement house, the cases must be reported at once. San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2020 Plumbing and sewage systems, paired with tenement house reform, helped remove excrement from the public streets. Katherine A. Foss, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020 Plumbing and sewage systems, paired with tenement house reform, helped remove excrement from the public streets. Katherine A. Foss, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1858, in the meaning defined above

tenement house

noun

as in apartment house

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • condo
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