apartment

See also Apartment

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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/, X-SAMPA: /@"pA:(r)t.m@nt/
• (US), IPA: /ʌˈpɑɹt.mɛnt/, X-SAMPA: /V"pArt.mEnt/

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Noun

apartment (plural apartments)

1. A complete domicile occupying only part of a building.

   apartment dwellers

2. (archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.
   • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Part I, Chapter IV

     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.

3. (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....

Synonyms

• (domicile occupying part of a building): flat (UK); unit; (compare with) condominium

Translations

domicile occupying part of a building

• Afrikaans: woonstel (af), appartement (af)
• Albanian: apartament (sq)
• Arabic: شَقّة (ar) (šáqqa) f

  Egyptian Arabic: شقة (šáqqa) f

• Armenian: բնակարան (hy) (bnakaran)
• Azeri: mənzil (az)
• Belarusian: кватэра (be) (kvatéra) f
• Bulgarian: апартамент (bg) (apartamént) m
• Burmese: တိုက်ခန်း (my) (tai' khan׃)
• Catalan: pis (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公寓 (cmn) (gōngyù), 套間 (cmn), 套间 (cmn) (tàojiān)

• Crimean Tatar: kvartira
• Czech: byt (cs) m
• Danish: lejlighed (da) c
• Dutch: appartement (nl) n, flat (nl)
• Elfdalian: lägeniet
• Esperanto: apartamento (eo), ĉambraro (eo)
• Estonian: korter (et)
• Faroese: íbúð (fo) f
• Finnish: asunto (fi)
• French: appartement (fr) m
• Georgian: ოთახი (ka) (ot’axi), ბინა (ka) (bina)
• German: Wohnung (de) f, Appartement (de)
• Greek: διαμέρισμα (el) (diamérisma) n
• Hebrew: דירה (he) (dirá) f
• Hindi: अपार्टमेंट (hi) (apārṭmēṇṭ)
• Hungarian: lakás (hu)
• Icelandic: íbúð (is) f
• Ido: apartamento (io)
• Indonesian: apartemen (id), flat (id)
• Irish: árasán (ga) m
• Italian: appartamento (it) m, alloggio (it) m
• Japanese: アパート (ja) (apāto), マンション (ja) (manshon)
• Jèrriais: appartément m
• Kashubian: mieszkanié (csb) n
• Kazakh: пәтер (kk) (päter)
• Khmer: ផ្ទះល្វែង (km) (pteah lvɛɛŋ)
• Korean: 아파트 (ko) (apateu)
• Kyrgyz: квартира (ky) (kvartira)
• Lao: ຄະຣຶຫະ (lo) (kʰā rɨ̄ há)

• Latvian: dzīvoklis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: butas (lt) m
• Macedonian: стан (mk) (stan) m
• Malay: rumah pangsa (ms), pangsapuri (ms), apartmen (ms)
• Maltese: appartament (mt) m
• Marathi: फ्लॅट (mr) (flǎṭa) m, अपार्ट्मेंट (mr) (apārṭmēṇṭa) n
• Mongolian: өрөө (mn) (öröö)
• Norwegian: leilighet (no) c
• Occitan: apartament (oc)
• Ossetian: фатер (fater)
• Persian: آپارتمان (fa) (âpârtemân)
• Polish: mieszkanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: apartamento (pt) m
• Romanian: apartament (ro) n
• Russian: квартира (ru) (kvartíra) f, апартамент (ru) (apartamént) m
• Scottish Gaelic: lobhta (gd) m, flat (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: стан (sh) m, stan (sh) m
• Sinhalese: අනුනිවස (si) (anunivasa), නිවස්කඩ (si) (nivaskaḍa)
• Slovak: byt (sk) m
• Slovene: stanovanje (sl) n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: bydlenje n

  Upper Sorbian: bydlenje (hsb) n

• Spanish: (Colombia, Caribbean Islands, Central America, Uruguay, Venezuela) apartamento (es) m, (Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru) departamento (es) m, (Spain) piso (es) m, vivienda (es)
• Swahili: ghorofa (sw), fleti (sw)
• Swedish: lägenhet (sv) c
• Tagalog: apartment (tl)
• Tajik: хонаи истиқоматӣ (tg) (xonayi istiqomatī), манзил (tg) (manzil), истиқоматгоҳ (tg) (istiqomatgoh)
• Tatar: квартир (tt) (kwartir), фатир (tt) (fatir)
• Thai: อพาร์ทเมนท์ (th) (à-pâat-mayn)
• Turkish: apartman (tr)
• Turkmen: kwartira (tk)
• Ukrainian: квартира (uk) (kvartýra) f, апартамент (uk) (apartamént) m
• Urdu: اپارٹمنٹ (ur) (apārṭmeṇṭ)
• Uzbek: kvartira (uz)
• Vietnamese: căn hộ (vi)
• Yiddish: וווינונג (yi) (voynung) f

archaic: suite of rooms within a domicile

• Esperanto: ĉambraro (eo)
• French: appartements (fr) m pl
• Greek: ενδιαίτημα (el) (endiaítima) n

• Irish: seomraí cónaithe (ga) m pl
• Macedonian: одаи (mk) (ódai) f pl
• Swedish: våning (sv) c

obsolete: division of an enclosure

• Greek: διαμέρισμα (el) (diamérisma) n

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• Serbo-Croatian: apartman (sh) m

• Indonesian: apartemen (id)
• Maltese: appartament (mt) m