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apartment definition

apart·ment (ə pärt′mənt)

noun

  1. a room or suite of rooms to live in; esp., one suite in an apartment house
  2. ☆ an apartment house

Etymology: Fr appartement < It appartamento < appartare, to separate < a, to + parte, part

adjective

of, in, or for an apartment or apartments

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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an apartment is a room or suit of rooms designed as a residence and generally located in a building occupied by more than one household

Posted by chrysanthia cox 52 days ago.

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