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tenement 音标拼音: [t'ɛnəmənt] n. 房屋,住户,租户,地产 房屋,住户,租户,地产 tenement n 1: a run- down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards [ synonym: { tenement}, { tenement house}] Tenement \ Ten" e* ment\, n. [ OF. tenement a holding, a fief, F. t[` e] nement, LL. tenementum, fr. L. tenere to hold. See { Tenant}.] 1. ( Feud. Law) That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Common Law) Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also { free tenements} or { frank tenements}. [ 1913 Webster] The thing held is a tenement, the possessor of it a " tenant," and the manner of possession is called " tenure." -- Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation. [ 1913 Webster] Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece? -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] 5. A { tenement house}. [ PJC] { Tenement house}, commonly, a dwelling house erected for the purpose of being rented, and divided into separate apartments or tenements for families. The term is often applied to apartment houses occupied by poor families, often overcrowded and in poor condition. [ 1913 Webster PJC] Syn: House; dwelling; habitation. Usage: { Tenement}, { House}. There may be many houses under one roof, but they are completely separated from each other by party walls. A tenement may be detached by itself, or it may be part of a house divided off for the use of a family. In modern usage, a tenement or tenement house most commonly refers to the meaning given for { tenement house}, above. [ 1913 Webster PJC] 58 Moby Thesaurus words for " tenement": Augean stables, acres, apartment, apartment house, chambers, chattels real, cold- water flat, condominium, cooperative apartment house, demesne, domain, dump, duplex, duplex apartment, duplex house, flat, flats, garden apartment, grounds, high- rise apartment building, hole, honor, hovel, land, landed property, lands, lodgings, lot, lots, manor, messuage, parcel, penthouse, pesthole, pigpen, pigsty, plague spot, plat, plot, praedium, property, quadrat, railroad flat, real estate, real property, realty, rental, rookery, rooms, set of rooms, slum, stable, sty, suite, tenements, the slums, toft, warrenTENEMENT, estates. In its most extensive signification tenement comprehends every thing which may be holden, provided it be of a permanent nature; and not only lands and inheritances which are holden, but also rents and profits a prendre of which a man has any frank tenement, and of which he may be seised ut de libero tenemento, are included under this term. Co. Litt. 6 a; 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 219; Pork. s. 114; 2 Bl. Com. 17. But the word tenements simply, without other circumstances, has never been construed to pass a fee. 10 Wheat. 204. In its more confined and vulgar acceptation, it means a house or building. Ibid. an 1 Prest. on Est. 8. Vide 4 Bing. 293; S C. l1 Eng. C. L. Rep. 207; 1 T. R. 358; 3 T. R. 772; 3 East, R. 113; 5 East, R. 239; Burn' s Just. Poor, 525 to 541; 1 B. & Adolph. 161; S. C. 20 Eng. C. L. Rep. 36 8; Com. Dig. Grant, E 2; Trespass, A 2; Wood' s Inst. 120; Babington on Auctions, 211, 212.
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