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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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 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

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Noun

Miguel said the building will still have the trappings of a luxury hotel, including a restaurant, a spa and fitness center, and a rooftop with a pool deck, bar, and private pools for the penthouses.

— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2026
Stephen Kliegerman, president of development marketing at Brown Harris Stevens, brought up the 36-unit boutique condo going up at 200 West 88th Street, where half of the units have four or more bedrooms, including five full-floor penthouses.

— Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of penthouses

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The rooms The ten rooms are split between five suites in the Casa Principal (each with a balcony) and five beachfront villas, the latter being more memorable.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Oct. 2026
The family-friendly festivities include trick-or-treating bags for the first 250 children younger than 12 in the vendor and tattoo rooms on Saturday, plus a kids’ costume contest where every participating child wins and specialty drinks.

— Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of rooms

Noun

These notorious ghosts appear in The Philosopher’s Stone alongside the Fat Lady, who, if given the correct password, lets the Gryffindors into their lodgings.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2026
Amenities such as kitchens, sometimes not available in hotels or hospital lodgings, give the option to cook patients' favorite foods.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of lodgings

Noun

Medallion, Silver, Royal, Grand and Owner’s Suites are the biggest, priciest suites and feature bigger verandas.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Oct. 2026
Oro Another operator doing the contemporary dahabeah thing, Oro has an existing ship aptly named Oro I, which has just nine rooms and suites.

— Susan B. Barnes, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2026

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Parks and gardens are woven into every neighborhood; check out the shocking-pink Portland Street micro park spliced between tenements in Yau Ma Tei; Victoria Park in Causeway Bay; and Kowloon Park, which has a lake populated by real-life flamingos.

— Lee Cobaj, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2026
Jet fuel burns as hot as kerosene — twice as hot as wood — and firefighters battle kerosene fires every day in the basements of tenements all over the city.

— Peter Wilkinson, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026

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