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noun

a room or a group of related rooms, among similar sets in one building, designed for use as a dwelling.

a building containing or made up of such rooms.

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.

apartments, British. a set of rooms used as a dwelling by one person or one family.

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Origin:
1635–45; < French appartement < Italian appartamento, equivalent to apparta(re) to separate, divide (verbal derivative of a parte apart, to one side) + -mento -ment

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a·part·men·tal

[uh-pahrt-men-tl] , adjective

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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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Our old apartment is sitting empty, and not selling.

Somewhere in an outlying district of this post-Soviet capital, four graduate students gather in a two-room apartment.

Armed police in flak vests surged into her apartment.

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Our old apartment is sitting empty, and not selling.

Somewhere in an outlying district of this post-Soviet capital, four graduate students gather in a two-room apartment.

Armed police in flak vests surged into her apartment.

Improving energy efficiency in a rental apartment requires attention to the same details as in a house or condominium.

In a large apartment building, it's impossible to avoid the neighbors.

Nader ran to the roof of his apartment building, where he had a view of the towers less than two miles away.

The next morning, she returned to the apartment to find his bloody corpse on the bathroom floor.

Still, many brokers and developers take heart from the fact that apartment buyers are back in the market.

They are back at school with their friends and living with me in an apartment complex with a swimming pool and a movie theater.

And if you want to really reach a lot of people, you bloody well better get yourself an apartment there.

Explore the roof, with its whimsical chimney towers, and the apartment restored in the style of the period.

Or the cake could be an apartment that has small rooms with views and large windowless rooms.

The rats near my old apartment were about that size.

Disney, ever the workaholic, had a studio apartment in the park so he could work right in the center of the action.

The disturbing writings scrawled on the wall of the shooter's apartment might indicate a violent state of mind.

By some accounts, he has had more contact with rats, which he had been catching in his apartment.

Vermicomposting appeals to apartment dwellers and to homeowners who can't use a traditional compost pile in the winter months.

Replicants will be returning to earth shortly to keep their electric sheep in ruined apartment buildings.

The company website even includes a tutorial on composting at home, whether you live in the country or in a tiny apartment.

There were no signs of forced entry to the apartment and no signs of a struggle.

Credit-card companies, apartment complexes, you name it.

Monumental apartment blocks and office towers rise heavenwards all over the city.

We came to an immense pile of broken concrete-the remains of a six-story apartment building.

His bloody shoe prints lead from the victim's body to the apartment exit door.

On the patio of a four-story apartment house, guests are served only small plates of rice and meatballs.

Clicking on them revealed photos of an apartment interior-a bedroom, a kitchen, a filthy living room.

They live in a mix of traditional residence halls and newer two-story townhouses, suites, and apartment complexes.

Apartment complexes are duly supplanting the cheaper residential parks where snowbirds have traditionally perched.

With a bouquet of flowers held close, a woman waits as police search for her husband in the rubble of an apartment building.

The answer for apartment dwellers who don't want to lose their deposit when vacating the place.

The aroma and taste is with me still and a bowl full in my kitchen, would scent the whole of my apartment.

Second, you'd only be able to appreciate it if you've sound-proofed your entire house or apartment.

Two days later, she gave birth to a baby girl in the bathroom of her campus apartment.

Their alleged chief ideologist was found living in a mountain village, in an apartment without any heating.

Vermicomposting, or using worms to compost garbage, is a good solution if you live in an apartment building or other urban home.

Space heaters in older apartment buildings often burn the cheap form of crude oil, which also is used to fuel ships.

We must keep the windows shut or they'll spill into the apartment.

In fact, the boxes are so attractive, one man furnished his apartment with them.

He suggests future tests in real apartment environments to ensure this doesn't happen.

Since they had no camping gear, they went to a friend's apartment for the night.

Distributing the satellites throughout my apartment was a cinch too.

Apartment owners can compost with this barrel, sized for a roof-top or small backyard.

Folding bikes are great for apartment dwellers, especially those without elevators.

Some went to the hospital, and inexplicably, some were delivered to his apartment.

Back when an airy two-bedroom apartment was a particularly spacious cave, people worked hard for their food.

Apartment or condo buildings often have two-door entry ways, which means less heat or cold escapes than in a direct doorway.

Dad's landlord let them borrow a vacant apartment upstairs, a cramped one-bedroom with dirty carpeting and a sticky kitchenette.

The luxury and the problem of recording in your own apartment is there is no clock.

Macy mansion workmen who are excavating for a new apartment house have found a rusty old.

Plattenbauten, the soulless prefabricated apartment blocks thrown up by the region's former communist.

The blaze began in a bedroom of a family's apartment and was reported by a teacher from a nearby grade school, officials said.

He had dreamed of building apartment complexes, corporate headquarters, modernist town halls.

Even in apartment blocks, volunteer shooters take aim to rid the ultra-orderly metropolis of a disorderly invasive species.

She would actually draw pictures of the apartment she was staying in and describe the beaches on the west coast.

Looking at the main façade of a city apartment complex and seeing a line of dirty gray disks poke out of windows like.

If you have a family, you can get a two-bedroom apartment.

New apartment blocks and office buildings appear with few new occupiers to pay for them.

Her parents rushed through the cramped apartment getting ready for work, and breakfast was lost in the shuffle.

Small-ish apartments, a lack of elevators in many apartment buildings and a generally high risk of theft means.

One of my friends recently expanded her apartment by buying an adjacent apartment.

On one side stand new apartment buildings for civil.

He went down from his apartment to a small café to ask the perplexed proprietor for some coffee grounds.

It is neighbored on one side by a small apartment complex and on the other side by a.

Numerous apartment houses in both the midtown and uptown neighborhoods changed hands yesterday in cash deals.

For poor students lacking spackle but desirous of apartment refund: breadcrumbs.

Nobody ever came to build the apartment blocks that the.

Butler had crammed several servers and laptops into the studio apartment high.

Every box is one more that you'll have to carry up the next flight of steps to your new apartment.

Most office and apartment towers put the cooling units on the roof.

Many were crushed when apartment buildings that had little or no steel in the concrete pillars simply pancaked.

The natural environment where your home or apartment once stood has been ruined for your benefit.

The author's apartment is in the brick building on the left.

Shandrow says, and a visit to a darkened room in his apartment shows how.

He fans these little flippers under his tale to spread the urine around his apartment and savor its aroma.

Contract signed and sealed weeks ago, deposit on new apartment paid, moving.

The beach is only a short walk away from my apartment.

There's a boom microphone in the apartment capturing what has now turned into a soliloquy.

We own a house in the hometown, and have an apartment in the university town.

He and his wife and children still live in a commonplace apartment that costs a third of a luxury one.

It has brought a dynamic change in the field of apartment booking.

My favorite apartment ever had appliances of that color and vintage.

Admit it, apartment dwellers, you'd have fixed that showerhead by now if you didn't need to search for the right tools.

Quite a few women look at the crappy car and small apartment and move on to the next guy.

The city has black apartment buildings and the odd black street but no black districts.

The fancy-looking apartment buildings are actually flimsy movie-set.

Transform your cramped apartment into a spacious villa, surround yourself with attractive friends.

They provide an apartment and also set-up money upon arrival.

The reason is that over time, a house or apartment settles and develops leaks here and.

Even apartment dwellers can organically grow herbs and vegetables in patio containers.

Rather, it arrived in our apartment aboard a pink begonia plant that we'd bought at the local farmer's market.

Elegant mansions and apartment buildings line the outside of the elaborate wrought-iron fence that surrounds the park.

And their voices in unison echoed through the chilly night and into our apartment.

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apartment (əˈpɑːtmənt)

—n
1.	(often plural) any room in a building, usually one of several forming a suite, esp one that is spacious and well furnished and used as living accommodation, offices, etc
2.	a. another name (esp US and Canadian) for flat
	b. (as modifier): apartment building; apartment house

[C17: from French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from appartare to set on one side, separate]

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Word Origin & History

apartment

1640s, "private rooms for the use of one person within a house," from Fr. appartement (16c.), from It. appartimento, lit. "a separated place," from appartere "to separate," from a "to" + parte "side, place," from L. partem (see part). Sense of "set of private rooms in a building

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entirely of these" (the U.S. equivalent of British flat) is first attested 1874.

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