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
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Examples 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
Recent Examples of apartment from the Web
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Khrushchevkas have no elevators; each apartment unit consists of one to three rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, and at times a balcony.
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Home sizes are still well above their prerecession peak, and the three-car garage is still more common than the one-bedroom apartment.
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Patricia Rivas, 41, who lives in one of the apartments on Dryden Place and is the mother of a child who attends Windsor, joined the volunteers who shoveled topsoil and mulch into wheelbarrows before depositing it into garden beds.
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The Metro Planning Commission initially told LDG to revise the layout, which featured 198 apartments, mostly in four-story buildings.
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Yates gathered up some of her things, and her security detail dropped her off at her apartment.
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But McDaniel said a proper renovation would benefit Gary by potentially returning two retail spaces that could be used by new businesses, along with three apartments located above the restaurant.
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The judge has declined to ease bail conditions so Ng could spend more time outside his apartment.
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The shooting occurred around 1 a.m. at a red brick apartment complex in the 100 block of Q Street NW, police said.
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Origin and Etymology of apartment
French appartement, from Italian appartamento
First Known Use: 1641
APARTMENT Defined for English Language Learners
apartment
playDefinition of apartment for English Language Learners
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: a usually rented room or set of rooms that is part of a building and is used as a place to live
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: a large and impressive room or set of rooms
APARTMENT Defined for Kids
apartment
playDefinition of apartment for Students
: a room or set of rooms rented as a home
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