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a·part·ment 
[uh-pahrt-muhnt] Pronunciation Key
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[uh-pahrt-muhnt] Pronunciation Key –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]
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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.
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| a·part·ment
(ə-pärt'mənt) Pronunciation Key
n.
[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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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| apartment | |
noun | |
| a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Apartment
A*part"ment\, n. [F. appartement; cf. It. appartamento, fr. appartare to separate, set apart; all fr. L. ad + pars, partis, part. See Apart.]1. A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. --Fielding. 2. A set or suite of rooms. --De Quincey. 3. A compartment. [Obs.] --Pope.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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