apartment
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- Regno Unito//əˈpɑːt.mənt//
- Stati Uniti//əˈpɑɹt.mənt//
A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
sostantivo
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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.
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arcaicoA 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.
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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.
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obsoletoA division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment.
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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.
Etimologia
From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart and -ment.
Forme
- plurale
- apartments
apartment · A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
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