apartment

noun

apart·​ment ə-ˈpärt-mənt 

plural apartments

1

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

2

: a building containing several individual apartments

3

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

Synonyms

• diggings [chiefly British]
• digs
• flat [chiefly British]
• lodgings
• suite
• tenement

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

Recent Examples on the Web

Tip 2: Turn your entry hallway into a kitchen The apartment’s entrance corridor is now a simple and subdued galley kitchen. —Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 26 Oct. 2024

But Dark Water addresses a common nightmare among renters: having something wrong with your apartment and no one around to fix it. —Katie Rife, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2024

Prosecutors had even managed to film Holmes entering an apartment and leaving with a package of drugs that is said to have been left for him by Lewis. —Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 25 Oct. 2024

Listen to this article A 34-year-old man was discovered fatally wounded Wednesday night in a stairwell of an apartment complex in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood, Chicago police said. —Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 24 Oct. 2024

Word History

Etymology

French appartement, from Italian appartamento

First Known Use

circa 1645, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing apartment

• apartment building
• apartment hotel
• duplex apartment
• efficiency apartment
• garden apartment
• in-law apartment
• mother-in-law apartment
• studio apartment

Kids Definition

apartment

noun

apart·​ment ə-ˈpärt-mənt 

1

: a room or set of rooms used as a dwelling

2

: apartment building