tenement

noun

/ˈtenəmənt/

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单词	tenement
释义	tenement noun /ˈtenəmənt/ /ˈtenəmənt/ jump to other results a large building divided into flats, especially in a poor area of a city a tenement block families living in overcrowded tenements living in a crowded tenement Topics Buildingsc2, Social issuesc2 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective cramped overcrowded squalid … tenement + noun apartment block building … preposition in a/the tenement See full entry Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘tenure, property held by tenure’): via Old French from medieval Latin tenementum, from tenere ‘to hold’.
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