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 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
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  • Residents of a Newark, New Jersey, apartment complex got a startling wakeup call Sunday morning when police in tactical gear, responding to reports of multiple people shot, stormed their building.
    — Andrew Ramos, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Just two days later, on July 8, 2025, several brush fires were ignited near his apartment complex — collectively dubbed the Copper River/Meenach Fires by investigators.
    — Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of apartment
Noun
  • Art fairs, collectors’ homes, artists’ studios, galas… The film is a welcoming and entertaining dive amongst the 1% and explores the complicated relationship between artists and commerce.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
  • On an 1888 rolling historic Victorian estate just off the bustling South Congress Avenue, Hotel Saint Cecilia offers a lavish collection of 20 bungalows, suites, and studios enveloped in a lush canopy of trees.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 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
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  • This is the architecture that enables maximum efficiency and full renewable integration.
    — Ciaran Flanagan, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The system is designed to improve efficiency while helping maintain stable performance after the facility enters service.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 10 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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