Thesaurus results for APARTMENTS

apartments

noun

plural of apartment

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

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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

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Recent Examples of apartments The largest of these projects is the People’s Park Supportive by UC Berkeley, an $8 million 1,100-unit development with below-market rate student housing and an additional 100 supportive apartments for formerly homeless individuals. —

Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026 Matthew Wylie, principal with Eckenhoff Saunders, said the new synagogue would not resemble the surrounding apartments. —

Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026 Less than one in five apartments are occupied. —

Albee Zhang, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026 Neighboring Westminster continues to build out its downtown project — with new shops, eateries and apartments on a 102-acre site that was once home to the Westminster Mall, which was demolished in 2011. —

John Aguilar, Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2026 Now owned by Goldenrod Companies, plans call for more upgrades, including a hotel, office space and apartments. —

Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas Morning News, 2 Mar. 2026 Inside, the building holds 337 apartments and also includes two internal shopping streets and a hotel. —

Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 2 Mar. 2026 What the researchers found was that the new housing freed up older, cheaper apartments, which, in turn, became occupied by people leaving behind still-cheaper homes elsewhere in the city, and so on. —

Henry Grabar, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2026 Fire officials said eight apartments were heavily damaged, and 24 units are now considered uninhabitable. —

Cbs News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026

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Designed by eccentric furniture designer Max Lamb, these monastically narrow and profoundly uncomfortable seats are the kind of pieces that fill penthouses and palazzos all over the world.

— Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 3 Mar. 2026
Accommodations range from Garden, Pool, and Ocean View suites to sprawling one- to three-bedroom residences and a handful of penthouses.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Feb. 2026