apartment

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Methinks this apartment is a bit pricey given the look (it's a basic apartment, not a showplace with details) and amenities (the internet and two bathrooms are great but where's the laundry?).

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  1. noun A room or suite of rooms designed as a residence and generally located in a building occupied by more than one household.
  2. noun An apartment house: a row of high-rise apartments.
  3. noun A room.
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  • I'm not sure either the job or the apartment was a great loss, however. —  The African Quest
  • This could not be effected without breaking prison,—a task of some enterprise, as our apartment was above a store-room, always closed, barred, and locked. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver, by Brantz Mayer and Theodore Canot.
  • All the outlets in my apartment are at floor level and I plug my iPhone into the wall outlet nearest my bed. —  Leah Culver
  • If it wasn't from him, I'd probably be blogging from a French prison, awaiting trial for ringing the neck of a certain French apartment-painter. —  David Lebovitz
  • A seven-year-old girl also in the apartment was the only person there who spoke English. —  tennessean.com - Top News from The Tennessean, MUSIC CITY U.S.A
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  1. French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from appartare, to separate, from a parte, apart : a, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + parte, side (from Latin pars, part-; see part).

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  1. from French appartement, from Italian appartamento, a room, an apartment, from appartare, also spelled apartare, separate, withdraw, from a parte, apart: see apart.
 

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/əˈpɑɛrtmənt/
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