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a⋅part⋅ment

  [uh-pahrt-muhnt]
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–noun
1. a room or a group of related rooms, among similar sets in one building, designed for use as a dwelling.
2. a building containing or made up of such rooms.
3. any separated room or group of rooms in a house or other dwelling: We heard cries from an apartment at the back of the house.
4. apartments, British. a set of rooms used as a dwelling by one person or one family.
Origin:
1635–45; < F appartement < It appartamento, equiv. to apparta(re) to separate, divide (v. deriv. of a parte apart, to one side) + -mento -ment

Related forms:
a⋅part⋅men⋅tal  [uh-pahrt-men-tl] , adjective

Synonyms:
1. Apartment, compartment agree in denoting a space enclosed by partitions or walls. Apartment, however, emphasizes the idea of separateness or privacy: one's own apartment. Compartment suggests a section of a larger space: compartments in a ship's hold, in an orange crate.
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a·part·ment   (ə-pärt'mənt)   
n.  

  1. A room or suite of rooms designed as a residence and generally located in a building occupied by more than one household.

  2. An apartment house: a row of high-rise apartments.

  3. A room.

  4. apartments Chiefly British A suite of rooms within a larger building set aside for a particular purpose or person.


[French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from appartare, to separate, from a parte, apart : a, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + parte, side (from Latin pars, part-; see part).]
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Word Origin & History

apartment 
1641, "private rooms for the use of one person within a house," from Fr. appartement, from It. appartimento, lit. "a separated place," from appartere "to separate," from a "to" + parte "side, place" (see apart). Sense of "set of private rooms in a building entirely of these" (the U.S. equivalent of British flat) is first attested 1874.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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