apartment

1. A room or suite of rooms designed as a residence and generally located in a building occupied by more than one household.

2. An apartment building: a row of high-rise apartments.

4.apartmentsChiefly British A suite of rooms within a larger building set aside for a particular purpose or person.

[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 ).]

apartment

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

a. another name (esp US and Canadian) for flat 2 1

b. (as modifier ): apartment building ; apartment house.

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

a part ment

1. a room or a group of related rooms, usu. among similar sets in one building, having housekeeping facilities and used as a dwelling.

2. a building made up of such rooms; apartment house.

[1635 45; French appartement Italian appartamento ]

a part men tal (- m n tl) adj.

flat

In British English, a flat is a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a large building.

She lived in a tiny furnished flat near Sloane Square.

In American English, a set of rooms like this is usually called an apartment .

It is a six-story building with 20 luxury two- and three-bedroom apartments .

In British English, a large building containing flats is usually called a block of flats .

The building was pulled down to make way for a block of flats .

4.'apartment block' and 'apartment building'

In American English, and sometimes in British English, it is called an apartment building or an apartment block .

He lives on the ninth story of an apartment block on Charlesgate East.

Several apartment buildings were destroyed in the fire.

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apartment

1. a room, usually rented, in a private house. kamer غُرْفَة مُسْتَأجَرَه жилище apartamento pokoj das Zimmer rum διαμέρισμα cuarto üürituba آپارتمان huone chambre דירה किसी निजी घर में किराए का कमरा soba lakosztály kamar sewaan, flat herbergi camera ; appartamento ammobiliato 貸間 셋방 kambarys istaba pangsapuri kamer hybel. rom pokój آپارتمان apartamento apartament комната внаём izba soba apartman rum ห้องชุดให้เช่า oda. daire 出租套房 кімната, житло ایک کمرہ căn phòng 套房

2. a flat. woonstel شَقَّة سَكَنِيَّه апартамент apartamento byt die Wohnung lejlighed διαμέρισμα apartamento. piso korter آپارتمان asunto appartement דירה फ्लैट stan lakás apartemen íbúð appartamento アパート 아파트 butas dzīvoklis pangsapuri flat leilighet mieszkanie آپارتمان apartamento apar­tament квартира byt stanovanje stan våning, lägenhet อพาร์ทเมนท์ daire. apartman dairesi 公寓 квартира ایک فلیٹ căn hộ 一套公寓房间

3. a single room in a house. a five-apartment house. kamer غُرْفَة في شَقَّة سَكَنِيَّه стая peça místnost das Zimmer rum δωμάτιο habitación tuba اتاق yhden hengen huone pièce דירה किसी घर का एक कमरा prostorija u kući szoba bagian herbergi camera 個々の部屋 (일반적인) 방 kambarys istaba bilik kediaman kamer rom pokój کوټه compartimento cameră комната izba soba, prostor soba rum ห้องเดี่ยวในบ้าน oda 一個房間 кімната, квартира گھر کا ایک کمرہ căn phòng 房间

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Months afterward Jim Burden arrived at my apartment one stormy winter afternoon, with a bulging legal portfolio sheltered under his fur overcoat.

Heyward took with him a blazing knot, which threw a dim light through the narrow vista of their new apartment .

Yes--er--in course--in course--" continued Dick, nervously glancing round the apartment as if endeavoring to find an opening to some less abrupt statement of the fact.

To be sure they all sleep together in one apartment. but you have your own hammock, and cover yourself with your own blanket, and sleep in your own skin.

When the proper time arrives for cutting up its contents, this apartment is a scene of terror to all tyros, especially by night.

He stared; and little by little he made out the great apartment. with a domed ceiling from which the light poured, and walls that were one enormous painting--nymphs and dryads dancing in a flower-strewn glade--Diana with her hounds and horses, dashing headlong through a mountain streamlet--a group of maidens bathing in a forest pool--all life-size, and so real that Jurgis thought that it was some work of enchantment, that he was in a dream palace.

His black hair, fine as floss silk, hung in glossy curls about his round, dimpled face, while a pair of large dark eyes, full of fire and softness, looked out from beneath the rich, long lashes, as he peered curiously into the apartment .

The rooms were whitewashed once a month; and this one, at least, was the whitest, most simply furnished, and probably neatest apartment in town.

I tried to imagine what would happen when the master should discover that it was I who had been fighting him; and what would happen if they jailed us together in the general apartment for brawlers and petty law-breakers, as was the custom; and what might --

The roof, composed of beams and rafters, had nothing to divide the apartment from the sky excepting the planking and thatch; there was a huge fireplace at either end of the hall, but as the chimneys were constructed in a very clumsy manner, at least as much of the smoke found its way into the apartment as escaped by the proper vent.

Whereas, by a statute made in the reign of his imperial majesty Calin Deffar Plune, it is enacted, that, whoever shall make water within the precincts of the royal palace, shall be liable to the pains and penalties of high-treason; notwithstanding, the said Quinbus Flestrin, in open breach of the said law, under colour of extinguishing the fire kindled in the apartment of his majesty's most dear imperial consort, did maliciously, traitorously, and devilishly, by discharge of his urine, put out the said fire kindled in the said apartment. lying and being within the precincts of the said royal palace, against the statute in that case provided, etc.