ten·e·ment
noun/ˈtenəmənt/
/ˈtenəmənt/
- 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’. - a tenement block