tenement
/ˈtenɪmənt/noun
1
- (especially in Scotland or the US) a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of flats（尤指苏格兰或美国的多户分住的）住房, 住宅。
1.1
- （亦作tenement house）a house divided into and let in such separate residences（供出租的）多户分住房屋, 经济公寓。
2
- a piece of land held by an owner业主土地。
2.1
- Law any kind of permanent property, e.g. lands or rents, held from a superior【律】享有物, 保有物（指受于长者并终身享有的财物, 如土地或租金）。
词源
Middle English （in the sense 'tenure, property held by tenure'）： via Old French from medieval Latin tenementum, from tenere 'to hold'.