duplex apartment

noun

Definition of duplex apartmentnext
as in studio apartment

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Recent Examples of duplex apartment Griffin also recently paid $38 million for a duplex apartment up the block from where Mamdani shot the video, according to the Wall Street Journal. — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026 After meeting his girlfriend, İlkay, the couple moved into a furnished two-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom duplex apartment in the Kadıköy neighborhood of Istanbul. — Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2025 The two upper floors contain an independent duplex apartment with both interior access and a separate staircase to the ground-floor entrance. — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for duplex apartment
Recent Examples of Synonyms for duplex apartment
  1. studio apartment
  2. garden apartment
  3. efficiency apartment
  4. railroad flat
  5. efficiency
  6. condo
  7. duplex
  8. penthouse
Noun
  • This enables the entire home to be arranged more like a studio apartment than a typical tiny house.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Alone in her tiny studio apartment, Sarah-Jane Hoadley regularly documents her life as a single woman in her 40s with no friends.
    — Amen Galinato, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of studio apartment
Noun
  • Pretty in Pink is one way to refer to this historic garden apartment—built in 1875.
    — Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The result tees up a vote today by the full City Council, when aldermen could give a green light clearing the way for new garden apartments, attic-to-housing conversions and coach housing.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2025
Definition of garden apartment
Noun
  • The inn also offers two efficiency apartments for longer-term stays.
    — Korrin Bishop, Southern Living, 1 July 2026
  • The business also offered plans for tiny homes, about the size of an efficiency apartment.
    — Amber Gaudet, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2026
Definition of efficiency apartment
Noun
  • Their first place had been a railroad flat, four flights up, three avenues over on Columbus, amid the drug dealers and the prostitutes, the opera singers and the social workers, fine for newlyweds starting out.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
  • Shelton moved with her five kids to a railroad flat on Blake Street in Berkeley.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2022
Definition of railroad flat
Noun
  • This approach is intended to combine the efficiency and speed of wheeled movement with the obstacle-clearing capabilities associated with legged robots.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2026
  • If Taron Johnson and the secondary hold up against complex passing schemes, the unit should take a noticeable leap in efficiency.
    — David Troy OutKick, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of efficiency
Noun
  • But instead of leaving the rink for an empty condo with only his own thoughts to keep him company, Tavares went to a home — Doug Weight’s, to be exact.
    — Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • That would make the construction of small apartment or condo buildings less expensive, helping developers fill Chicago’s empty lots with units that are also affordable, said Ald.
    — Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of condo
Noun
  • Madden tussled with the co-op, at one point unsuccessfully trying to buy the fourth-floor apartment to make a duplex of her own.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Then the back unit of the duplex became available, and Blanding immediately thought of her sister.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of duplex
Noun
  • To everyone’s chagrin, Taylor has smuggled Ben into her penthouse hotel room.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Over the course of challenges, members of the Workers are able to replace Rulers in the penthouse, changing their fortunes and the tide of the game.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of penthouse

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