studio apartment

noun

: a small apartment consisting typically of a main room, kitchenette, and bathroom

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The industry’s biggest trucks have the interior designs of plush studio apartments. James Raia, Mercury News, 16 June 2025 So in many of the rooms, the closets alone are larger than some studio apartments. Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 15 June 2025 In Experiment City, scientific progress and a collective ethos have had counterintuitive social consequences: Citizens occupy uniform studio apartments, becoming increasingly insular and fastidious about the cleanness of their bodies. Madeleine Feeny, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025 Revenue further dried up when the 30-year deal for affordable housing upstairs ended and the operator pulled out, leaving behind a warren of tiny, obsolete studio apartments that the city could not decide what to do with. Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for studio apartment

Word History

First Known Use

1884, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of studio apartment was in 1884

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“Studio apartment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/studio%20apartment. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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