sub-apartment

English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ apartment.

Noun

sub-apartment (plural sub-apartments)

1. An apartment forming part of a larger apartment.
   • 1957, The Reporter, volume 16, page 18:

     […] the same crowded conditions in each of the five one-room and my friends' two-room (for five adults) subapartments of the communal apartment.

   • 2010, Grace Krilanovich, The Orange Eats Creeps:

     The buildings had been converted to small rooms and sub-apartments, one stacked inside another.

   • 2020, Alexa Donne, The Stars We Steal:

     The royal quarters arced on either side like a horseshoe, and our temporary home was to the very end of the hall, in a sub-apartment that opened with yet another bio-lock.