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TOEFL BNC: 12452 COCA: 14363

tenement

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
tenement /ˈtɛnəmənt/ noun
plural tenements
tenement
/ˈtɛnəmənt/
noun
plural tenements
Learner's definition of TENEMENT
[count]
: a large building that has apartments or rooms for rent and that is usually in a poorer part of a city(城市贫民区的)廉租公寓
called also tenement house
TOEFL BNC: 12452 COCA: 14363

tenement

noun

ten·​e·​ment ˈte-nə-mənt How to pronounce tenement (audio)
1
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

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

Time Traveler
The first known use of tenement was in the 14th century
TOEFL BNC: 12452 COCA: 14363
tenement

noun

ADJECTIVE | TENEMENT + NOUN | PREPOSITION ADJECTIVEcramped, overcrowded, squalid逼仄的/擁擠不堪的/骯髒的廉租公寓crumbling, dilapidated, old, ramshackle, run-down搖搖欲墜的/破落的/老舊的/嚴重失修的/破敗不堪的廉租公寓abandoned廢棄的廉租公寓TENEMENT + NOUNapartment, block, building, flat, house, housing廉租公寓樓;廉租大樓;經濟公寓;經濟住房PREPOSITIONin a/the tenement在廉租公寓裏families living in overcrowded tenements住在擁擠不堪的廉租公寓裏的家庭

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