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    Spence is an old and now rarely used English word for a small room where food is kept - like a or . You'll mostly see it in older British books, especially from Northern England or Scotland; it isn't used in everyday modern English.

    (古/方言)食物儲藏室、餐具室

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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組成From an old French word related to 'dispense' - the idea of a place where food was given out or stored.

同家族的字

  • dispenseshares the same old root, connected to giving out or storing

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Spencename/ˈspɛns/

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    Short form of the male given name Spencer.

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    A surname.

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    A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

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    A locality in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia.

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    A ghost town in Magnetawan township, Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada.

spencenoun

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    dateddialectalA buttery or pantry.

    • 'I expect it was a dog which got into the spence and licked up the junket and ate the biscuits,' put in the old turf-cutter. 'I would lock and bar the spence-door, if I were you, the next time I put such nice things in there.'

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。