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APARTMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("apartment" is a kind of...):
housing; living accommodations; lodging (structures collectively in which people are housed)
Meronyms (parts of "apartment"):
kitchenette (small kitchen)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "apartment"):
bedsit; bedsitter; bedsitting room (a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing))
cold-water flat (an apartment without modern conveniences)
duplex; duplex apartment (an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase)
efficiency apartment (a furnished apartment with a kitchenette and bathroom)
flatlet (a tiny flat)
maisonette; maisonnette (a self-contained apartment (usually on two floors) in a larger house and with its own entrance from the outside)
penthouse (an apartment located on the top floors of a building)
railroad flat (an apartment whose rooms are all in a line with doors between them)
studio; studio apartment (an apartment with a living space and a bathroom and a small kitchen)
rooms; suite (apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel))
walk-up; walk-up apartment (an apartment in a building without an elevator)
Holonyms ("apartment" is a part of...):
apartment building; apartment house (a building that is divided into apartments)
Context examples:
One realised the red-hot energy which underlay Holmes’s phlegmatic exterior when one saw the sudden change which came over him from the moment that he entered the fatal apartment.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
How fearfully will you examine the furniture of your apartment!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
It was then about twelve o'clock, and she returned to her sister's apartment to wait for the arrival of the apothecary, and to watch by her the rest of the night.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
When she reached the White Hart, and made her way to the proper apartment, she found herself neither arriving quite in time, nor the first to arrive.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
In space, light, furniture, and prospect, there was nothing alike in the two apartments; and she often heaved a sigh at the remembrance of all her books and boxes, and various comforts there.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Certainly I had been accustomed to every luxury at Maple Grove; but I did assure him that two carriages were not necessary to my happiness, nor were spacious apartments.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Elizabeth jumped out; and, after giving each of them a hasty kiss, hurried into the vestibule, where Jane, who came running down from her mother's apartment, immediately met her.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
This great lord, whose name was Munodi, ordered me an apartment in his own house, where I continued during my stay, and was entertained in a most hospitable manner.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
One after the other we made our way into a large apartment, which was evidently that in which Mr. Melas had found himself.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This would be an ideal time to lease a new apartment, to buy or sell property, or to renovate or decorate.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
