apartment
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈpɑːt.mənt/
- (General American) enPR: ə-pärt'mənt, IPA(key): /əˈpɑɹt.mənt/
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Noun[edit]
apartment (plural apartments)
- (chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
- apartment dwellers
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- I am Jonathan. I am in apartment B4. — I am in apartment C2.
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- I am Jonathan. I am in apartment B4. — I am in apartment C2.
- (archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.
- 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput):
- 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.
- (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,
- (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[edit]
- (domicile occupying part of a building): flat (UK); unit; (compare with) condominium
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Japanese: アパートメント (apātomento)
- → Thai: อพาร์ทเมนท์ (à-páat-mén)
Translations[edit]
domicile occupying part of a building
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archaic: suite of rooms within a domicile
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obsolete: division of an enclosure
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