Apartment Meaning
/əˈpɑːt.mənt/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
nounA suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.
Sentence Examples
What happened? There's water all over the apartment.
Is your apartment well maintained?
They rented a small apartment in the center of the city.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She rented a small ____ on the top floor of the old building.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She recently moved into a small ____ on the tenth floor of the building.
Word Origin & History
From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart and -ment.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Mildendo, the Metropolis of Lilliput, Described, together with the Emperor’s Palace. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 69:
"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."
— 1913, Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
She rented a small ____ on the top floor of the old building.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She recently moved into a small ____ on the tenth floor of the building.