apartment

noun

apart·ment | \ ə-ˈpärt-mənt

plural apartments

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

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.— Jonathan Petre

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Synonyms for apartment

Synonyms

diggings [chiefly British], digs, flat [chiefly British], lodgings, suite, tenement

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

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Now my boyfriend is moving into a new, beautiful, big apartment. — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, "Ask Amy: One-sided attraction affects a friendship," 14 June 2019 Now my boyfriend is moving into a new, beautiful, big apartment. — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, "Ask Amy: One-sided attraction affects friendship," 14 June 2019 Now my boyfriend is moving into a new, beautiful, big apartment. — Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, "Ask Amy: I said I wasn’t interested, then she showed up naked," 14 June 2019 Now my boyfriend is moving into a new, beautiful, big apartment. — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, "Ask Amy: One-sided attraction affects a friendship," 14 June 2019 The apartment, which is listed by Coleman Real Estate Group and managed by Matthew Coleman, is located at 122 Waverly Place in the heart of New York's tony West Village. — Tainaya Nash, House Beautiful, "This Insane $16 Million Townhouse Has a Retractable Roof—So You Can Stargaze Inside," 14 June 2019 The woman was stumbling in the street after leaving the bar and later ran into a wall on the way to the apartment, Hoppmeyer said. — Lynh Bui, baltimoresun.com, "Former Maryland basketball player Damonte Dodd acquitted of rape charges," 14 June 2019 Now my boyfriend is moving into a new, beautiful, big apartment. — Ask Amy, oregonlive.com, "Ask Amy: If sexual harassment isn’t a friendship deal breaker, what is?," 14 June 2019 That includes the chance to literally step into apartment 4A, the original living space of Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Leonard (Johnny Galecki). — Lynette Rice, EW.com, "You can sit in Sheldon Cooper's spot now on the Warner Bros. Studio Tour," 11 June 2019

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