apartment
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English
Etymology
French appartement; compare with Italian appartamento, from appartare (“to separate, set apart”); all from Latin ad + pars 'part'. See apart.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /əˈpɑː(ɹ)t.mənt/, SAMPA: /@"pA:(r)t.m@nt/
- (US), IPA: /ʌˈpɑɹt.mɛnt/, SAMPA: /V"pArt.mEnt/
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Noun
apartment (plural apartments)
- A complete domicile occupying only part of a building.
- apartment dwellers
- (archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.
- 1726, Jonathan Swift, "A Voyage to Lilliput", chapter IV, in Gulliver's Travels,
- 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.
- 1726, Jonathan Swift, "A Voyage to Lilliput", chapter IV, in Gulliver's Travels,
- (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,
Synonyms
- (domicile occupying part of a building): flat (UK); unit; (compare with) condominium
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