- 1(古/方言)食物儲藏室、餐具室
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.
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，摘錄並精簡格式，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.'
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