apartment

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/əˈpɑːt.mənt/]

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1. apartment (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.

Example: apartment dwellers

2. apartment (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.

Example: 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 lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.

3. apartment (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A room within a house.

Example: 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.

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