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 development has studio apartments and units up to three bedrooms. — Emily Holshouser august 21, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Aug. 2026 The development plan shows 30 studio apartments of 500 square feet, 106 one-bedroom units ranging from 635 to 916 square feet, and 40 two-bedroom models of 1,117 to 1,162 square feet. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 19 Aug. 2026 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 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
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  • 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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  • Named for designer Colin King’s Chelsea apartment, the collection reflects Beni’s Moroccan craft heritage through a contemporary lens.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Jones has become known for hosting some of the biggest names in Southern art, including Tara Stallworth Lee, Daniel José Carr, Renee Hanan Plata, and William Dooley, at Room 412, his tiny gallery space at the front of his apartment.
    — Leslie Pariseau, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of apartment
Noun
  • In 2025, The Jay hotel in San Francisco teamed up with The Namesake, transforming a section of The Jay’s stylish Third Floor into an exclusive design studio.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • For decades, Grady said, studios routinely promoted exceptional artists into management without providing adequate training.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 13 Oct. 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
  • Citroën/Stellantis The original 2CV was an extraordinary achievement of human engineering, balancing severe material shortages with unmatched spatial efficiency.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Oct. 2026
  • These efficiency improvements will allow Microsoft to rely mainly on its in-house AI chips soon, instead of ones from Nvidia and AMD.
    — Tom Warren, The Verge, 12 Oct. 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 15 Oct. 2026.

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