apartment
/əˈpɑɹt.mənt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.65 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
Australian usage; Canadian usage; American usage
noun
A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.
Archaic
noun
A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy.
Example Sentences
- "apartment dwellers"
- "I am Jonathan. I am in apartment B4. — I am in apartment C2."
- "Sitting alongside rare wine, coloured diamonds and old masters, a full-floor apartment in a pencil tower with a view of Central Park makes a fine addition to the investor's trophy cabinet. Except it is not just a trinket in a safe. It is a very large presence on the skyline for all to endure."
- "Calhoun, an endlessly inventive designer of experiments, built an enclosure outfitted with rat apartments and partitioned the pen into connected “neighborhoods,” creating a murid arcadia that he could observe at his leisure."
- "By this contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined. There I saw the empress and the young princes in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them."
- "For the matter of that, it is difficult to make a nice, genteel sitting-room out of an apartment of which the principal features are a sink and a big gas stove."
Etymology
From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”), equivalent to apart + -ment. See apart and -ment.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: appartement, appartamento, apartamiento
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈpɑɹt.mənt/
- British English: /əˈpɑːt.mənt/