apartment
nouncommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//əˈpɑːt.mənt//
- United States//əˈpɑɹt.mənt//
A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
noun
- 1
A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
apartment dwellers
I am Jonathan. I am in apartment B4. — I am in apartment C2.
- 2
archaicA 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 lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.
- 3
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.
- 4
obsoleteA division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment.
- 5
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.
Etymology
From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart and -ment.
Forms
- plural
- apartments
apartment · A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
ape · An anthropoid of the superfamily Hominoidea, generally larger…apiece · Each by itself; for or to each one.apocalypse · A revealing, especially a prophecy of, or the unfolding of,…