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 While often used in kids’ rooms, loft beds also work well in adult spaces like guest rooms, studio apartments, and narrow homes. — Shagun Khare, Martha Stewart, 18 Aug. 2026 There, guards forced her and the other Azov women onto the ground and told them to crawl across the concrete floor and into their cell, a basement smaller than a studio apartment, with a sliver of window just above ground level. — Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026 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 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
  • In West Hartford, the company hopes to build two five-story buildings with a total of 120 apartments.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 2026
  • As my family gathered at my younger brother's apartment in downtown Philadelphia the next day, the mood was deeply heavy.
    — Laurel Dalrymple, NPR, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of apartment
Noun
  • His drawings of nudes sprawled on the daybed in his studio were up in one of the few good galleries in town.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Harbaugh is now the new face of the New York Giants, while Tomlin signed on as a studio analyst for NBC Sports’ Football Night in America.
    — Charlotte Carroll, New York Times, 9 Sep. 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
  • 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
  • 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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