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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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Then, as Mr Moscato leaves, a sunbeam suddenly lights up her apartment.
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Jessie Davis, who lives in an apartment house next to the building where Alton lived, said her grandchildren, ages 8, 9 and 10, regularly make the same walk to the nearby park with a swimming pool.
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A package, valued at $330, was reported stolen July 7 from the mailbox vestibule at the apartment complex in the 4200 block of North Mallard Drive.
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His body was found in a parking area behind an apartment in the 400 block of South 38th Street.
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Hours after a fire ravaged his apartment, Carlos Godinez stood near his father in a brake store parking lot on Chicago Avenue feeling lucky to be alive.
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Name: Twila Harris of Kansas City Age: 26 Circumstances of the crime: Stabbed to death just inside her Kansas City apartment at 3744 Warwick about 4:35 a.m. Oct. 18, 1994.
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Those who are well-connected get to watch from the comfort of an apartment window.
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Plans had called for two buildings, with 72 apartments each, separated by a clubhouse with an outdoor pool.
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Origin and Etymology of apartment
French appartement, from Italian appartamento
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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