apartment
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Noun (1)apartments
- a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment houseSynonyms: flatType of housing, lodgingKinds suite, penthouse, walk-up apartment, cold-water flat, maisonette, flatlet, efficiency apartment, bedsitting room, railroad flat, studio apartment +1 morePart of apartment building, apartment houseParts kitchenette
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. appartement; cf. It. appartamento, fr. appartare to separate, set apart; all fr. L. ad + pars, partis, part. See Apart.
1. A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Henry Fielding
2. A set or suite of rooms. Thomas DeQuincey
3. A compartment. obsolete Alexander Pope
4. A room or suite of rooms in a building comprising a dwelling unit separate from others in the building, and typically having its own separate bath, sanitary, and kitchen facilities. Such apartments are in most cases rented from the owner by those dwelling in them.
efficiency apartment, a small apartment{4}, sometimes furnished, with minimal kitchen and bath facilities. The unit may comprise a single room plus a bathroom, and the kitchen facilities are often open to the main room, or may form a small niche in a corner. There are many variations of efficiency apartment, including some in which furnishings such as a bed may be pull out from a wall recess and stored there again when not in use. Also called an efficiency.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors