apartment
See also: Apartment
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈpɑːt.mənt/
- (General American) enPR: ə-pärt'mənt, IPA(key): /əˈpɑɹt.mənt/
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Noun
editapartment (plural apartments)
- (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, Philippines) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
- apartment dwellers
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- (archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.
- 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Mildendo, the Metropolis of Lilliput, Described, together with the Emperor’s Palace. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 69:
- By this contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined. There I saw the empress and the young princes in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.
- (obsolete) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment
- 1883 April 23, Slawson v. Grand Street R. Co., 107 U.S. 649, 2 S.Ct. 663, 664,
- The specification described the ordinary fare-box used in street cars and omnibuses, consisting of two apartments, the one directly above the other.... [T]he passenger deposited his fare in an aperture in the top of the upper apartment. It fell upon and was arrested by a movable platform.... This platform turned on an axis acted on by a lever. When turned, the fare fell into the lower apartment, which was a receptacle for holding the fares accumulated....
- 1883 April 23, Slawson v. Grand Street R. Co., 107 U.S. 649, 2 S.Ct. 663, 664,
- (computing, COM) A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy.
Synonyms
edit- (domicile occupying part of a building): flat (UK); unit; (compare with) condominium
Derived terms
edit- apartelle
- aparthotel
- apartmental
- apartment block
- apartment building
- apartment complex
- apartment hotel
- apartment house
- apartmentless
- apartmentlike
- apartmentmate
- apartment-sit
- apartment sit
- apartments to let
- apartotel
- bachelor apartment
- basement apartment
- efficiency apartment
- garage apartment
- garden apartment
- hotel-apartment
- microapartment
- mother-in-law apartment
- multiapartment
- nanoapartment
- studio apartment
- sub-apartment
Descendants
edit- → Japanese: アパートメント (apātomento)
- → Thai: อพาร์ทเมนท์ (à-páat-mén)
Translations
editdomicile occupying part of a building
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archaic: suite of rooms within a domicile
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obsolete: division of an enclosure
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