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VocabJLPT N1

row house

Noun

Definitions

1. tenement house
2. row house

This word refers to a traditional style of Japanese row house where multiple households share walls and live side by side in a long building. It is associated with the Edo period townspeople's lifestyle and appears frequently in historical dramas and literature.

Example sentences

Sentence 1

Over the weekend, the tenement residents all got together for a hot pot.

Sentence 2

Could you share the floor plan of the tenement house first?

Sentence 3

Looking at the on-site photos, the eaves of the tenement are in pretty bad shape.

Sentence 4

The team got excited about "putting into words what makes tenement houses special."

Sentence 5

Since moving to that tenement house in the back alley, I can hear the cats so much more clearly.