railroad flat

noun

Definition of railroad flatnext
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for railroad flat
  1. studio apartment
  2. garden apartment
  3. duplex apartment
  4. efficiency apartment
  5. granny flat
  6. efficiency
  7. condo
  8. duplex
Noun
  • Franklin rented the property from Margaret Stevenson and lived on the second floor in a studio apartment.
    — Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
  • The project includes 36 studio apartments, 144 one-bedroom units and 32 two-bedroom units.
    — Sofia Baltodano, Miami Herald, 30 June 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
  • 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
  • The business also offered plans for tiny homes, about the size of an efficiency apartment.
    — Amber Gaudet, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2026
  • The former Sears building would be redeveloped into a local brewery, art gallery, event space, retail space, offices, and efficiency apartments.
    — Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 17 Dec. 2025
Definition of efficiency apartment
Noun
  • Another guideline would be reducing restrictions on accessory dwelling units, often referred to as granny flats or in-law suites.
    — Joseph Lawler, The Washington Examiner, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The move to expand the use of granny flats and other ADUs is long overdue.
    — David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2025
Definition of granny flat
Noun
  • Its small size allows it to power cruise missiles and other autonomous platforms where weight, packaging and fuel efficiency directly affect range and payload capacity.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 July 2026
  • The front-wheel-drive model remains the efficiency champion, while all-wheel drive adds traction and considerably more punch.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 July 2026
Definition of efficiency
Noun
  • Still, the town looks diminutive, a thin ribbon of boxy wooden condo buildings and parking lots in a brief clearing between foothills dense with conifers.
    — Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 July 2026
  • In addition, the condo comes with three parking spaces and three private storage units.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 14 July 2026
Definition of condo
Noun
  • Fifth Avenue duplex The actor, along with her then-boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri, rented a $37,000-a-month five-bedroom duplex in Midtown Manhattan’s Olympic Tower in the mid-2000s.
    — Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 16 July 2026
  • The deals in June included an $80 million duplex penthouse in a new condo building near Manhattan's West Village, a $26 million condo downtown and a $22 million co-op on the Upper East Side.
    — Robert Frank, CNBC, 3 July 2026
Definition of duplex

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“Railroad flat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/railroad%20flat. Accessed 22 Jul. 2026.

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