duplex apartment

noun

: an apartment having rooms on two floors

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The two upper floors contain an independent duplex apartment with both interior access and a separate staircase to the ground-floor entrance. Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 May 2025 Corcoran and her husband, Bill Higgins, bought the 11-room duplex apartment in 2018 for $10 million and spent $3 million on renovations, according to CNBC. Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 31 Jan. 2025 The duplex apartment measures roughly 9,200 square feet with five bedrooms and six bathrooms. Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2024 Although she was born in Oakland, California, most of Harris’s early childhood was spent in a nondescript duplex apartment located above a day care facility in an area of West Berkeley known as the flatlands (her parents met as graduate students at UC Berkeley). Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 31 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for duplex apartment

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1925, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of duplex apartment was circa 1925

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“Duplex apartment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/duplex%20apartment. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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