Apartment Definition
ə-pärtmənt
apartments
noun
apartments
A room or suite of rooms designed as a residence and generally located in a building occupied by more than one household.
American Heritage
A room or suite of rooms to live in; esp., one suite in an apartment house.
Webster's New World
An apartment building.
A row of high-rise apartments.
American Heritage
An apartment house.
Webster's New World
A room.
American Heritage
adjective
Of, in, or for an apartment or apartments.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Apartment
Noun
Singular:
apartment
Plural:
apartmentsOrigin of Apartment
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French appartement from Italian appartamento from appartare to separate from a parte apart a to (from Latin ad ad–) parte side (from Latin pars part- part)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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French appartement; compare with Italian appartamento, from appartare (“to separate, set apart”); all from Latin ad + pars 'part'. See apart.
From Wiktionary
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