compartment

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A room, or section, or chamber, typically within a vehicle.

   Two men were seated in a well-lit compartment of a third-class railway carriage.

2. 2
   noun

   a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area

3. 3
   noun

   a space into which an area is subdivided

4. 4
   noun

   One of the parts into which an area is subdivided.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin com- Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-der.? Proto-Italic *partis Latin pars Latin partiō Latin partior Latin compartīrībor. Italian compartire Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-məntom Latin -mentum Italian -mento Italian compartimentobor. Middle French compartimentder. English compartment First attested 1564, from Middle French compartiment, from Italian compartimento, from Late Latin compartiri (“to divide with, to share with”), from com- + partiri (“to appo...

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