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单词 settlement house
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Definition of settlement house in English:

settlement house

noun
  • An institution in an inner-city area, typically sponsored by a church or college, providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1910, Sokolow grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where she pursued courses in various settlement houses.
    • Music clubs established music schools within settlement houses, sponsored after-school musical activities and donated records and sheet music to public libraries.
    • Olga works in a settlement house, smokes, and bobs her hair.
    • And on her second European trip she visited the first British settlement house, Toynbee Hall.
    • Jane Addams had preceded Evans, travelling to England in 1887 to study settlement houses, and the seeds for Hull House were planted.
    • In 1926 she became a social worker and resident in Denison House, a Boston settlement house.
    • Among them were the Women's Educational and Industrial Union and Denison House, a settlement house.
    • They include libraries, youth organizations, settlement houses, housing development centers, and stand-alone computing centers.
    • He also marched in several of New York's always-controversial May Day Parades and organized Negro Youth Leagues at a Harlem settlement house.
    • And by that December a lengthy article in the Birmingham News reported that 227 children were using the settlement house.
    • Nor was it an isolated phenomenon, for the Birmingham Board of City Missions established other settlement houses and programs.
    • This story begins by satirizing two uptown women who work in a settlement house but whose interest in the slum clearly exceeds reform and uplift.
    • In addition to serving as the hothouse for Irish political aspiration, Five Points was also the site of the nation's first settlement house.
    • I taught at a community center behind the Art Gallery of Ontario where there's a settlement house.
    • Chapters Three through Six function collectively to analyze the complex role of dance in settlement houses and early parks and recreation agencies.
    • Returning to the east coast to complete college, Amelia became president of the local chapter of the National Aeronautic Association while being employed as a social worker at a settlement house.
    • She visited a variety of settlement houses that were largely funded by private charitable contributions.
    • Mildred stands for an army of middle- and upper-class women who worked in settlement houses and strived for social progress through philanthropic contact with lower-class life.
    • Smaller numbers walked to events at nearby settlement houses.
    • This was a thriving civic community, supporting branches of various civic organizations, including a YMCA settlement house that ran job-training programs.
 
 

Definition of settlement house in US English:

settlement house

nounˈsɛdlmənt haʊz
  • An institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Nor was it an isolated phenomenon, for the Birmingham Board of City Missions established other settlement houses and programs.
    • This story begins by satirizing two uptown women who work in a settlement house but whose interest in the slum clearly exceeds reform and uplift.
    • She visited a variety of settlement houses that were largely funded by private charitable contributions.
    • This was a thriving civic community, supporting branches of various civic organizations, including a YMCA settlement house that ran job-training programs.
    • They include libraries, youth organizations, settlement houses, housing development centers, and stand-alone computing centers.
    • In addition to serving as the hothouse for Irish political aspiration, Five Points was also the site of the nation's first settlement house.
    • Music clubs established music schools within settlement houses, sponsored after-school musical activities and donated records and sheet music to public libraries.
    • Returning to the east coast to complete college, Amelia became president of the local chapter of the National Aeronautic Association while being employed as a social worker at a settlement house.
    • Olga works in a settlement house, smokes, and bobs her hair.
    • Jane Addams had preceded Evans, travelling to England in 1887 to study settlement houses, and the seeds for Hull House were planted.
    • Smaller numbers walked to events at nearby settlement houses.
    • In 1926 she became a social worker and resident in Denison House, a Boston settlement house.
    • I taught at a community center behind the Art Gallery of Ontario where there's a settlement house.
    • Chapters Three through Six function collectively to analyze the complex role of dance in settlement houses and early parks and recreation agencies.
    • Born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1910, Sokolow grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where she pursued courses in various settlement houses.
    • Among them were the Women's Educational and Industrial Union and Denison House, a settlement house.
    • And by that December a lengthy article in the Birmingham News reported that 227 children were using the settlement house.
    • Mildred stands for an army of middle- and upper-class women who worked in settlement houses and strived for social progress through philanthropic contact with lower-class life.
    • He also marched in several of New York's always-controversial May Day Parades and organized Negro Youth Leagues at a Harlem settlement house.
    • And on her second European trip she visited the first British settlement house, Toynbee Hall.
 
 
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