apartment

A2 Topic:House & Home
US /əˈpɑɹt.mənt/ UK /əˈpɑːt.mənt/
noun Freq #1009

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    A set of rooms to live in, usually on one floor of a larger building; a flat.

    They rented a small apartment near the city center.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 noun · a set of rooms to live in,... flatunitcondominium
Word family
Forms apartments
Derived forms apartelleaparthotelapartment-sitapartmentalapartmentlessapartmentlikeapartmentmateapartotelhotel-apartmentmicroapartmentmultiapartmentnanoapartment
Related forms tenement

Common collocations

Etymology

From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart.

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