Apartment

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Apartment \A*part"ment\, n. [F. appartement; cf. It.
     appartamento, fr. appartare to separate, set apart; all fr.
     L. ad + pars, partis, part. See {Apart}.]
     1. A room in a building; a division in a house, separated
        from others by partitions. --Fielding.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. A set or suite of rooms. --De Quincey.
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     3. A compartment. [Obs.] --Pope.
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     4. A room or suite of rooms in a building comprising a
        dwelling unit separate from others in the building, and
        typically having its own separate bath, sanitary, and
        kitchen facilities. Such apartments are in most cases
        rented from the owner by those dwelling in them.
        [PJC]
  
     {efficiency apartment}, a small apartment[4], sometimes
        furnished, with minimal kitchen and bath facilities. The
        unit may comprise a single room plus a bathroom, and the
        kitchen facilities are often open to the main room, or may
        form a small niche in a corner. There are many variations
        of efficiency apartment, including some in which
        furnishings such as a bed may be pull out from a wall
        recess and stored there again when not in use. Also called
        an {efficiency}.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  apartment
       n : a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
           [syn: {flat}]