apartment

See also: Apartment

English

Alternative forms

• (abbreviated): APT (The US Postal Service prefers this variant APT)
• (abbreviated): Apt.

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French appartement; compare with Italian appartamento, from appartare (“to separate, set apart”); all from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ad + pars 'part'. See apart.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /əˈpɑː(ɹ)t.mənt/
• , (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /əˈpɑɹt.mənt/
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  Audio (US):

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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.

   • 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....

4. (computing, COM) A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• apartment building

See also

• tenement

Translations

domicile occupying part of a building

• Afrikaans: woonstel, appartement
• Albanian: apartament (sq) m
• Arabic: شَقَّة f (šaqqa)
• Armenian: բնակարան (hy) (bnakaran)
• Asturian: pisu m
• Azeri: mənzil (az)
• Bashkir: фатир (fatir)
• Belarusian: кватэ́ра f (kvatéra)
• Bengali: কক্ষ (bn) (kokkho), কামরা (kamra)
• Bulgarian: апартаме́нт (bg) m (apartamént)
• Burmese: တိုက်ခန်း (my) (tuikhkan:)
• Catalan: pis (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公寓 (zh) (gōngyù), 套間／套间 (zh) (tàojiān), 套间 (zh) (tàojiān)

• Crimean Tatar: kvartira
• Czech: byt (cs) m
• Danish: lejlighed (da) c
• Dutch: woning (nl), appartement (nl) n, flat (nl)
• Elfdalian: lägeniet
• Esperanto: apartamento (eo), ĉambraro
• Estonian: korter
• Faroese: íbúð f
• Finnish: asunto (fi)
• French: appartement (fr) m
• Georgian: ოთახი (otaxi), ბინა (bina)
• German: Wohnung (de) f, Appartement (de) (rare)
• Greek: διαμέρισμα (el) n (diamérisma)
• Hebrew: דִירָה (he) f (dirá)
• Hindi: अपार्टमेंट (apārṭamẽṭ)
• Hungarian: lakás (hu)
• Icelandic: íbúð (is) f
• Ido: apartamento (io)
• Indonesian: apartemen (id), flat (id)
• Irish: árasán m
• Italian: appartamento (it) m, alloggio (it) m, quartierino m
• Japanese: アパート (ja) (apāto), マンション (ja) (manshon)
• Kashubian: mieszkanié n
• Kazakh: пәтер (kk) (päter)
• Khmer: ផ្ទះល្វែង (pteah lvɛɛŋ)
• Korean: 아파트 (ko)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: ,

  Sorani: ئاپارتمان (apartman), شوقە (şuqe)

• Kyrgyz: квартира (kvartira)
• Lao: ຄະຣຶຫະ (kha rư ha)
• Latvian: dzīvoklis m
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• Lithuanian: butas (lt) m
• Macedonian: стан m (stan)
• Malay: rumah pangsa, pangsapuri, apartmen
• Maltese: appartament m
• Maori: wharetō
• Marathi: फ्लॅट m (phlĕṭ), अपार्ट्मेंट n (apārṭmeṇṭa)
• Mongolian: өрөө (mn) (öröö)
• Norman: appartément m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: leilighet (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: husvære n, leilegheit f

• Occitan: apartament
• Ossetian: фатер (fater)
• Pashto: اپارتمان (ps) m (apārtomãn)
• Persian: آپارتمان (fa) (âpârtemân)
• Polish: mieszkanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: apartamento (pt) m
• Romanian: apartament (ro) n
• Russian: кварти́ра (ru) f (kvartíra), апартаме́нт (ru) m (apartamént)
• Scottish Gaelic: lobhta m, flat m
• Serbo-Croatian: стан m, stan (sh) m
• Sinhalese: අනුනිවස (anuniwasa), නිවස්කඩ (niwaskaḍa)
• Slovak: byt (sk) m
• Slovene: stanovanje (sl) n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: bydlenje n

  Upper Sorbian: bydlenje 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
• Swedish: lägenhet (sv) c
• Tagalog: apartment
• Tajik: хонаи истиқоматӣ (xona-yi istiqomati), манзил (manzil), истиқоматгоҳ (istiqomatgoh)
• Tatar: квартир (kwartir), фатир (tt) (fatir)
• Telugu: అంకణము (te) (aṅkaṇamu)
• Thai: อพาร์ทเมนท์ (à-páat-mén)
• Turkish: apartman (tr)
• Turkmen: kwartira
• Ukrainian: кварти́ра f (kvartýra), апартаме́нт m (apartamént)
• Urdu: اپارٹمنٹ (apārṭmeṇṭ)
• Uzbek: kvartira (uz)
• Vietnamese: căn hộ (vi)
• Yiddish: וווינונג f (voynung), דירה f (dire)
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

archaic: suite of rooms within a domicile

• Esperanto: ĉambraro
• French: appartements (fr) m pl
• Greek: ενδιαίτημα (el) n (endiaítima)
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• Irish: seomraí cónaithe m pl
• Macedonian: одаи f pl (odai)
• Swedish: våning (sv) c

obsolete: division of an enclosure

• Greek: διαμέρισμα (el) n (diamérisma)
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• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} apartman (sh) m
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} apartemen (id)
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• Maltese: ^{(please verify)} appartament m
• Mongolian: ^{(please verify)} байр (bajr)