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apartment

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See also: Apartment

English

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Alternative forms

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  • APT (The US Postal Service prefers this variant)
  • apt.

Etymology

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From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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apartment (plural apartments)

  1. (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, 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.
  2. (archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.
    • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Mildendo, the Metropolis of Lilliput, Described, together with the Emperor’s Palace. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 69:
      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. A room within a house.
    • 1913, Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger:
      For the matter of that, it is difficult to make a nice, genteel sitting-room out of an apartment of which the principal features are a sink and a big gas stove.
  4. (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....
  5. (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.

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Tagalog

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English apartment, from French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). Doublet of apartamento.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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apartment (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜉᜇ᜔ᜆ᜔ᜋᜒᜈ᜔ᜆ᜔)

  1. apartment (domicile occupying part of a building)
    Synonyms: bahay-paupahan, apartamento, aksesorya, posesyon
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