apartment

noun

apart·ment ə-ˈpärt-mənt

plural apartments

Synonyms of apartment next

: a room or set of rooms fitted especially with housekeeping facilities and usually leased as a dwelling

: a building containing several individual apartments

British : a large and impressive room or set of rooms

—usually plural

Assured that the Queen and Prince Philip had retired to bed, Mr Hillyard tried to pass through the Royal apartments as the train left Aberdeen on its journey to London.—

Jonathan Petre

apartmental

ə-ˌpärt-ˈmen-tᵊl

adjective

Examples of apartment in a Sentence

We lived in an apartment for several years before buying a house. a spacious six-room apartment that occupies the entire upper floor of a two-family house

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Another execution attempt of Creech, 74, had been scheduled for Nov. 13 — coincidentally, the same date in which the four University of Idaho students were fatally stabbed in 2022 in an off-campus apartment house. —

Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024 Officers found Lorenzo-Olivera, 36, about 1:45 p.m. June 24, 2022, lying face down in a parking lot of an apartment complex at 1299 Electric Ave. —

Ron Wood, arkansasonline.com, 6 Nov. 2024 The sale of the Park Avenue apartment did end up taking a while. —

Dan Alexander, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024 London’s Chelsea Barracks, in the natty Belgravia district, famously housed the British Royal Army for 150 years before it was converted into a sprawling complex of luxury apartments and townhouses. —

Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for apartment