a large building divided into flats, especially in a poor area of a city (尤指城市贫困区的)经济公寓,廉租公寓 a tenement block 经济住宅街区 families living in overcrowded tenements 住在拥挤不堪的廉租公寓里的家庭 living in a crowded tenement 住在拥挤的廉租公寓
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- cramped
- overcrowded
- squalid
- …
- apartment
- block
- building
- …
- in a/the tenement
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘tenure, property held by tenure’): via Old French from medieval Latin tenementum, from tenere ‘to hold’.