Apartment

Quick meaning: Apartment is a noun meaning A room within a house.

Meaning

A room within a house.

More Meanings

1. (computing, COM) 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.
2. (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, Philippines) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
3. (archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.
4. (obsolete) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment.

Example Sentences

apartment dwellers

I am Jonathan. I am in apartment B4. — I am in apartment C2.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• apartments

Synonyms for apartment

Depending on context, synonyms include flat, unit, condominium.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flat, condo, accommodation, hostel, condominium, house.

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