studio apartment

noun

Definition of studio apartmentnext
as in garden apartment
a small private dwelling that is one of a group of dwellings in one building or block Most of the grad students lived in studio apartments adjacent to campus.

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Recent Examples of studio apartment Rent for a studio apartment starts at $1,575. — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2026 Four studio apartments averaging 643 square feet each, 253 one-bedroom apartments of about 744 square feet each, 112 two-bedroom units with 1,110 square feet each and 28 three-bedroom apartments averaging 1,371 square feet each will be included. — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2026 The two units collectively feature three bedrooms and four bathrooms in roughly 3,500 square feet, including a separate studio apartment. — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 8 June 2026 The home, a studio apartment inside a century-old building, had great natural light. — Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar, Architectural Digest, 4 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for studio apartment
Recent Examples of Synonyms for studio apartment
  1. garden apartment
  2. duplex apartment
  3. efficiency apartment
  4. apartment
  5. studio
  6. railroad flat
  7. efficiency
  8. apartment house
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
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  • 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
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  • Residential buildings were badly damaged in the assault, leaving people trapped in multi-story apartment blocks and an entire family that was killed pulled from the rubble, while cars were seen burning on city streets.
    — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
  • Roseville has a new apartment community that offers a different take on traditional apartment living in Placer County.
    — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 5 July 2026
Definition of apartment
Noun
  • Across 13 recent live-action films from Disney and other studios, all made more than 60% of their global box office revenue in international markets, Gross said.
    — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
  • Again, these are creators who are operating like studios, many of them churning out episode after episode and garnering a lot of views.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 8 July 2026
Definition of studio
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
  • At this scale, even a simple operation becomes a bottleneck, and any extra efficiency has global economic consequences.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 13 July 2026
  • The company says this approach improves physical accuracy, execution efficiency, and generalization for real-world robotic applications.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
Definition of efficiency
Noun
  • The heavy equipment was then set to take off the front of the apartment house where the fire began, because investigators still have not determined the cause of the fire and needed access to find out.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • At the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 70th Street, one such residence occupies a stately 1920s apartment house designed by renowned architect Rosario Candela.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 28 May 2026
Definition of apartment house

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