apartment
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mənt 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.
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
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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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.
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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| —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
entirely of these" (the U.S. equivalent of British flat) is first attested 1874.
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Example sentences
As more would-be homeowners look to rent, apartment prices are feeding inflation while home prices continue to fall.
The spacious apartment was furnished with every possible luxury.
City planning also took on new ideas, and developers began thinking in terms of convenience for apartment dwellers.
Their father did not tell them anything until he had driven them back to his apartment.
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