apartment
noun
apart·ment
ə-ˈpärt-mənt 
plural apartments
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
3
British
: a large and impressive room or set of rooms
—usually plural
Assured that the Queen and Prince Philip had retired to bed, Mr Hillyard tried to pass through the Royal apartments as the train left Aberdeen on its journey to London.—
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Jonathan PetreExamples of apartment in a Sentence
We lived in an apartment for several years before buying a house.
a spacious six-room apartment that occupies the entire upper floor of a two-family house
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Despite facing a real estate behemoth intent on clawing them out of their homes, tenants are fighting back and fundraising for the Chelsea Public Housing Legal Defense Fund to help desperate seniors stay in their apartments.
—Stacy Torres, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2025
The culinary space also serves as a bar, which maximizes the amount of entertainment area relative to the overall size of the apartment.
—Nicolas Milon, Architectural Digest, 16 Aug. 2025
Firefighters putting out a blaze in a St. Paul senior living community early Friday found a person dead inside an apartment unit.
—Kathryn Kovalenko, Twin Cities, 16 Aug. 2025
According to his relative, police came to the family’s apartment around that time for another search.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2025
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Stacy Torres, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2025
The culinary space also serves as a bar, which maximizes the amount of entertainment area relative to the overall size of the apartment.
—Nicolas Milon, Architectural Digest, 16 Aug. 2025
Firefighters putting out a blaze in a St. Paul senior living community early Friday found a person dead inside an apartment unit.
—Kathryn Kovalenko, Twin Cities, 16 Aug. 2025
According to his relative, police came to the family’s apartment around that time for another search.
—Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2025
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“Apartment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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apartment
noun
apart·ment
ə-ˈpärt-mənt
1
: a room or set of rooms used as a dwelling
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