apartment
Other forms: apartments
An apartment is a private residence in a building or house that's divided into several separate dwellings. An apartment can be one small room or several.
An apartment is a flat — it's usually a few rooms that you rent in a building. Your apartment might be in a fancy high rise with a doorman and an elevator, or over your parents' garage. Since the 1640s, an apartment has meant "separate rooms within a house," from the Italian word appartimento, which literally means "a separated place."
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a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment housesynonyms: flattypes:bedsit, bedsitter, bedsitting rooma furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing)cold-water flatan apartment without modern conveniencesefficiency apartmenta furnished apartment with a kitchenette and bathroomflatleta tiny flatmaisonette, maisonnettea self-contained apartment (usually on two floors) in a larger house and with its own entrance from the outsidepenthousean apartment located on the top floors of a buildingrailroad flatan apartment whose rooms are all in a line with doors between themtype of:
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