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1
a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place
- a spacious six-room apartment that occupies the entire upper floor of a two-family house
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- bed-sitter
- (also bedsit or bed-sitting-room)
- [British],
- cohousing,
- condo,
- condominium,
- duplex,
- duplex apartment,
- efficiency,
- efficiency apartment,
- flatlet
- [British],
- floor-through,
- garden apartment,
- granny flat
- [chiefly British],
- maisonette,
- penthouse,
- railroad flat,
- salon,
- saloon
- [chiefly British],
- studio,
- studio apartment,
- triplex,
- walk-up
2
an area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall
- the museum sets aside this large central apartment to display special exhibitions
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The first known use of apartment was circa 1645
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