apartment
Americannoun
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a room or a group of related rooms, among similar sets in one building, designed for use as a dwelling.
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a building containing or made up of such rooms.
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any separated room or group of rooms in a house or other dwelling.
We heard cries from an apartment at the back of the house.
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British. apartments, a set of rooms used as a dwelling by one person or one family.
noun
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(often plural) any room in a building, usually one of several forming a suite, esp one that is spacious and well furnished and used as living accommodation, offices, etc
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another name (esp US and Canadian) for flat 2
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( as modifier )
apartment building
apartment house
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Other Word Forms
- apartmental adjective
Etymology
Origin of apartment
1635–45; < French appartement < Italian appartamento, equivalent to apparta ( re ) to separate, divide (verbal derivative of a parte apart, to one side) + -mento -ment
Example Sentences
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Further down the leafy street, rows of apartment blocks stood with their windows shattered.
From Barron's
The street lights were switched off on Tehran's main roads Sunday night, and apartments appeared dark, suggesting many people had left the capital.
From Barron's
Israeli wellness influencer Hofit Golan exclaims repeatedly in a video that shows a building near her apartment in flames.
From Barron's
His sister moved their 88-year-old mother from the apartment he finished renovating last week just two hours before the strike.
From Barron's
The 35-year-old said her sister's family and pets had to seek shelter in their apartment because they lived close to the Jebel Ali port, where there was "a lot of debris falling".
From BBC
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