Synonyms of apartments

apartments

noun

plural of apartment

1

as in penthouses

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• penthouses
• condominiums
• lodgings
• flats
• suites
• tenements
• condos
• studios
• digs
• efficiencies
• duplexes
• saloons
• maisonettes
• garden apartments
• diggings
• studio apartments
• duplex apartments
• efficiency apartments
• flatlets
• wings
• salons
• railroad flats
• triplexes
• apartment houses
• apartment buildings
• granny flats
• walk-ups
• tenement houses
• galleries
• cohousings
• bed-sitters
• floor-throughs

2

as in rooms

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rooms
• chambers
• cells
• cabins
• closets
• accommodations
• alcoves
• compartments
• bays
• cubicles
• berths
• booths
• nooks
• niches
• snuggeries
• recesses

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of apartments

The apartments Svetlana cleaned belonged to people in their thirties who didn’t seem to leave the house much—there was trash from Amazon and Uber Eats everywhere. — Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026

Eight years after local developers Mark Lovley and Tony Valenti began talking about building Steele Center, the 80,000-square-foot mix of apartments and busy retail shops at Berlin’s Amtrak station is finally complete. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026

Georgia and Florida developers will seek Mooresville Town Board approval Monday night for 450 Lake Norman apartments and townhomes unanimously rejected in June by the town Planning Board. — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 1 Nov. 2026

Kim can allay some frustrations by doling out luxury apartments, promotions, and access to extravagant lifestyles. — Jieun Baek, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2026

And that means looking beyond the traditional single-family house to a wide mix of options, such as apartments, townhomes, smaller accessible homes and accessory dwelling units like spaces above garages or backyard cottages. — Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2026

An effort to convert the seminary’s main building into luxury apartments failed in 1981. — Courtney Bell, Baltimore Sun, 29 Oct. 2026

Hebron municipal officials said families had been displaced from nearly 500 apartments in Deir Bahha and surrounding neighborhoods. — Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026

Outrage in Israel Hebron municipal officials said families had been displaced from nearly 500 apartments in Deir Bahha and surrounding neighborhoods. — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026