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as in penthouse
a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place
a spacious six-room apartment that occupies the entire upper floor of a two-family house
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as in room
an area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall
the museum sets aside this large central apartment to display special exhibitions
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Recent Examples of apartment
Ostrichpillow Go Neck Pillow This memory foam neck pillow has become my most trustworthy travel companion, joining me on flights to Tbilisi and Paris, on train rides to upstate New York, and in rental apartments where the pillows provided don’t quite cut it.
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Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025
Prodrive’s white-glove delivery service, which once devised a way to get a unit into a client’s 22nd-floor apartment.
—Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2025
From around 2018 through 2023, Rubin paid the rent on Powers’ Manhattan apartment, her children’s private school tuition, her credit card bills and the down payment on her Texas home.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Sep. 2025
That is the address for the Reserve at Stone Hollow apartments, off Mallard Creek Road in northeast Charlotte.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 27 Sep. 2025
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Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025
Prodrive’s white-glove delivery service, which once devised a way to get a unit into a client’s 22nd-floor apartment.
—Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2025
From around 2018 through 2023, Rubin paid the rent on Powers’ Manhattan apartment, her children’s private school tuition, her credit card bills and the down payment on her Texas home.
—Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Sep. 2025
That is the address for the Reserve at Stone Hollow apartments, off Mallard Creek Road in northeast Charlotte.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 27 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apartment
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Near the penthouse level, a balcony stretches across the building, offering a swimming pool and a vertiginous view of the city.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Click here for more images of the Abu Dhabi penthouse.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
29 Sep. 2025
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Now the Jeserich Building, also known as the Tower building — a distinctive piece of 1888 Kansas City architecture, with its southwest Queen Ann turret rooms and bow windows — will be coming down, its owners confirmed Tuesday.—
Chris Higgins,
Kansas City Star,
30 Sep. 2025
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The clip shows Mason just sitting in the middle of the room, seemingly blocking everything else out and ignoring the dogs around him.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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Staying in affordable cabin lodgings has its own romantic charm in many cases.—
Wendy Altschuler,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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All around the world, bold new lodgings are luring discerning travelers in search of beauty, glamour, and the unexpected.—
Sam Cochran,
Architectural Digest,
11 Aug. 2025
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The price was $498,000, and the new owners took over the condominium in July.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
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The history of the property, now condominiums, but originally built as a hotel, is deep.—
Jess Fleming,
Twin Cities,
19 Sep. 2025
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Surrounded by turquoise Caribbean waters along a sandy white beach, a total of six individual resorts (including one that's adults-only) make up the Barceló Maya Grand Resort for a total of more than 3,500 rooms and suites.—
Allison Tibaldi,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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This all starts when Adriana shows up at her mortal enemy, Marysol’s, house because Marysol is hosting a gifting suite that also doubles as a holiday party.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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Notre Dame needed just two plays from there, with second-string tailback Jadarian Price taking a swing pass in the right flats through the middle of Arkansas’ defense for a 35-yard touchdown with nine seconds remaining before intermission.—
Tom Murphy,
Arkansas Online,
27 Sep. 2025
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Pumps, ballet flats, boots, and loafers are all options that will work with little problem.—
Renata Joffre,
Glamour,
26 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement More broadly, tenement dwellers exercised their freedom of assembly, press and speech by publishing and reading newspapers, and delivering and listening to speeches.—
Annie Polland,
Time,
25 Sep. 2025
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What follows is one wild, sweltering summer day and night in their East Village tenement, as the two scheme with a crew of eccentric neighbors to cover up a dead body.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
22 Sep. 2025
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Then, in July, with a separate lender, for an Atlanta condo.—
Samantha Delouya,
CNN Money,
25 Sep. 2025
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Local condo prices climbed 60% over the same period.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Apartment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apartment. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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