apartment

The definition of an apartment is a place where a person lives that may be part of a building containing other apartments.

(noun)

An example of an apartment is a small group of rooms over the garage that a family rents out to their grown son.

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noun

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

adjective

of, in, or for an apartment or apartments

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noun

A room or suite of rooms designed as a residence and generally located in a building occupied by more than one household.
An apartment house: a row of high-rise apartments.
A room.
apartments Chiefly British A suite of rooms within a larger building set aside for a particular purpose or person.

Origin:

Origin: French appartement

Origin: , from Italian appartamento

Origin: , from appartare, to separate

Origin: , from a parte, apart

Origin: : a, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-)

Origin: + parte, side (from Latin pars, part-; see part)

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