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 The project includes 36 studio apartments, 144 one-bedroom units and 32 two-bedroom units. — Sofia Baltodano, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026 Nick Waddell rents a studio apartment in Charlotte, North Carolina. — Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 28 June 2026 Gonzalez, a 39-year-old single mother raising a daughter, had just broken up with her boyfriend and couldn’t afford the rent on her studio apartment by herself. — Kayla Levy, Curbed, 25 June 2026 Rent for a studio apartment starts at $1,575. — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 11 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
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
  • Meanwhile, the national median rent was $1,388 per month as of July 2026, according to a separate report from apartment search platform Apartment List.
    — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
  • The footage also showed federal agents were by the apartment front door and Neal was at a significant distance when the shooting occurred, according to Wharton.
    — Juliana Kim, NPR, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of apartment
Noun
  • The renovation was carried out by Vestige Estudio, the hotel group’s own architecture, interior design, and landscaping studio.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Watermarks would indicate that the rights to a song were owned by a particular music label or that the rights to a movie were held by a film studio.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 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
  • The balance between efficiency and pleasantness in doing business seems extremely hard to achieve.
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Big banks—including JPMorgan, Citi, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America—are all investing heavily in AI to boost efficiency, and Bank of America is already pointing to measurable returns.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 24 Aug. 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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“Studio apartment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/studio%20apartment. Accessed 25 Aug. 2026.

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