apartment

a·part·ment  (-pärtmnt)

n.

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 house: a row of high-rise apartments.

3. A room.

4. apartments Chiefly 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

Noun

1. any room in a building, usually one of several forming a suite, used as living accommodation

2. Chiefly US & Canad Also called (Brit): (flat) a set of rooms forming a home within a building usually incorporating other similar homes [French appartement]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

apartment - a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house flat apartment building, apartment house - a building that is divided into apartments bedsit, bedsitter, bedsitting room - a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing) cold-water flat - an apartment without modern conveniences duplex apartment, duplex - an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase efficiency apartment - a furnished apartment with a kitchenette and bathroom flatlet - a tiny flat housing, living accommodations, lodging - structures collectively in which people are housed kitchenette - small kitchen maisonette, maisonnette - a self-contained apartment (usually on two floors) in a larger house and with its own entrance from the outside penthouse - an apartment located on the top floors of a building railroad flat - an apartment whose rooms are all in a line with doors between them studio apartment, studio - an apartment with a living space and a bathroom and a small kitchen rooms, suite - apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel) walk-up, walk-up apartment - an apartment in a building without an elevator

---

apartment

noun 1. U.S. flat, room, suite, compartment, penthouse, duplex U.S., Canad. crib, bachelor apartment Canad.

noun 2. rooms, quarters, chambers, accommodation, living quarters

Translations

apartment [əˈpɑːtmənt] n (US) → piso, departamento (LAM); apartamento (= room); cuarto

---

apartment [əˈpɑːtmənt] n (US) → appartement m, logement m (= room); chambre f

---

apartment [əˈpɑːtmənt] n (US) (flat) → Wohnung f;

(room) → Raum m, Zimmer nt

---

apartment [əˈpɑːtmənt] n (US) → appartamento;

apartments npl → appartamento ammobiliato