apartment

apart·ment

noun \ə-ˈpärt-mənt\

Definition of APARTMENT

1

: a room or set of rooms fitted especially with housekeeping facilities and usually leased as a dwelling

2

: a building containing several individual apartments

— apart·men·tal \ə-ˌpärt-ˈmen-t^əl\ adjective

Examples of APARTMENT

1. We lived in an apartment for several years before buying a house.
2. <a spacious six-room apartment that occupies the entire upper floor of a two-family house>

Origin of APARTMENT

French appartement, from Italian appartamento

First Known Use: 1641

Related to APARTMENT

Synonyms

diggings [chiefly British], digs, flat [chiefly British], lodgings, suite, tenement

Related Words

bed-sitter (also bedsit or bed-sitting-room) [British], cohousing, condo, condominium, duplex, duplex apartment, efficiency, efficiency apartment, flatlet [British], floor-through, garden apartment, granny flat [chiefly British], maisonette, penthouse, railroad flat, salon, saloon [chiefly British], studio, studio apartment, triplex, walk-up; gallery, wing; apartment building, apartment house, tenement house

Other Architecture Terms

buttress, casita, cornice, fanlight, garret, lintel, parapet, pilaster, plinth

Rhymes with APARTMENT

compartment, department