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apartment
- /əˈpɑːt.mənt/ UK
- /əˈpɑɹt.mənt/ US
Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)tmənt
Where it comes from
From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”), equivalent to apart + -ment. See apart and -ment.
noun apartments · APT · apt.
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A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
apartment dwellers
Similar: flat, unit, condominium
- A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom. By this contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined. There I saw the empress and the young princes in their several lod
- A room within a house. For the matter of that, it is difficult to make a nice, genteel sitting-room out of an apartment of which the principal features are a sink and a big gas stove.
- A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment. 1883 April 23, Slawson v. Grand Street R. Co., 107 U.S. 649, 2 S.Ct. 663, 664, The specification described the ordinary fare-box used in street cars and omnibuses, consisting of two apartments, the one directly above the other.... [T]he passenger deposited his fare in an aperture in the top of the u
- A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: flat, casa, condo, accommodation, hostel, condominium, house, room, digs, housing, place, dwelling, residence, shelter, residential, domicile
Translations
Every language
noun domicile occupying part of a building
| Español | apartamento, departamento, piso, vivienda, depa |
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| 한국어 | 아파트 apateu, 맨션 maensyeon |
| 日本語 | アパート apāto, マンション manshon, 集合住宅 shūgō jūtaku, 共同住宅 kyōdō jūtaku, 長屋 nagaya |
| 中文 | 公寓 gōngyù, 套間 /套间 tàojiān, 套房 tàofáng |
| हिन्दी | अपार्टमेंट apārṭamẽṭ, फ़्लैट flaiṭ |
| Kiswahili | fleti |
| Português | apartamento, flate f/flete |
| Français | appartement |
| Deutsch | Wohnung, Appartement |
| Italiano | appartamento, alloggio, quartierino |
| Ελληνικά | διαμέρισμα diamérisma |
| Română | apartament |
| Русский | кварти́ра kvartíra, апартаме́нт apartamént |
| Tiếng Việt | căn hộ |
| العربية | شَقَّة šaqqa |
| עברית | דִירָה dirá |
noun archaic: suite of rooms within a domicile
| Français | appartements |
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| Ελληνικά | ενδιαίτημα endiaítima |
noun obsolete: division of an enclosure
| Ελληνικά | διαμέρισμα diamérisma |
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