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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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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In 2011, schoolteacher Ellen Greenberg was found dead on the kitchen floor of her Philadelphia apartment with some 20 knife wounds and numerous bruises.
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Instantly, her apartment faded away, to be replaced by a dark void.
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Beyond the crowd, dark trees, and rising above the trees, a set of offices and apartments.
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Brandon Griggs, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
Instantly, her apartment faded away, to be replaced by a dark void.
—Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
Beyond the crowd, dark trees, and rising above the trees, a set of offices and apartments.
—Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
Nile Rodgers posted a tribute on Instagram Tuesday, recalling the early days when record executive Gary Harris — who signed D’Angelo — had brought him over to Rodgers’ apartment in New York to show him music.
—Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for apartment
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“Apartment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment. Accessed 19 Oct. 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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