duplex apartment

noun

: an apartment having rooms on two floors

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The duplex apartment measures roughly 9,200 square feet with five bedrooms and six bathrooms. Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2024 Although she was born in Oakland, California, most of Harris’s early childhood was spent in a nondescript duplex apartment located above a day care facility in an area of West Berkeley known as the flatlands (her parents met as graduate students at UC Berkeley). Michelle Duncan, Architectural Digest, 31 July 2024 Pascal Chevallier Her duplex apartment, in the haut-monde 16th arrondissement, delights in a similar mix of bourgeois deference to French classicism and pleasure-seeking quirk. Ellie Pithers, Vogue, 31 July 2024 When June 1, 2024 Where Philadelphia The Day After The following day, the women hosted an open house reception on the roof deck of their duplex apartment in Philadelphia, welcoming nearly 100 guests — family and friends from high school, college and work (denoted by different name tags). Kera Bolonik, New York Times, 7 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for duplex apartment 

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1925, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of duplex apartment was circa 1925

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“Duplex apartment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/duplex%20apartment. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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