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railroad flat

noun

Definition of railroad flat

as in studio apartment

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Recent Examples of railroad flat 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, 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 Shortly after Howe was born, in 1940, her family moved from Buffalo to a railroad flat near Harvard Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019

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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

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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

Definition of duplex apartment

Noun

With its open kitchen, family room and sunroom that opened onto a deck, the four-bedroom, $460,000 condo in the nearby suburb of Hudsonville checked every box.

— Emily Elconin for CNN, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026
The video, which was captured from The Mark on Brickell Bay, a nearby condo building, showed one of the cars in flames and a plume of black smoke.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of condo

Noun

Austin Ledet and his fiancée closed on a Northwest Washington condo in April, a two-level duplex in a rowhouse.

— Barbara Rubin, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2026
The documents say the two men ran back inside the duplex and Castro fired a single shot through the door, striking Sosa-Celis in the foot.

— WCCO Staff, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026

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