apartment

noun

ə-ˈpärt-mənt How to pronounce apartment (audio)
Definition of apartmentnext
1
as in penthouse
a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place a spacious six-room apartment that occupies the entire upper floor of a two-family house

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2
as in room
an area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall the museum sets aside this large central apartment to display special exhibitions

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Recent Examples of apartment Staff writer George McEvoy predicted that by 2026, a two-bedroom apartment would rent for $3,000 a month in Broward. — Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 4 July 2026 Photographers caught Swift’s car leaving her New York apartment and arriving at Madison Square Garden. — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2026 Marie Marseille’s 100-pound dog, Jameson, a shaggy golden Saint Berdoodle, was killed on June 13 by an LAPD officer while bounding out of Marseille’s Canoga Park apartment. — Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026 Examples include Fashion Valley’s plans to replace the JCPenney store with 850 luxury apartments and the intent by The Valley, formerly known as Westfield Mission Valley East, to add multifamily residential units. — Hang Nguyen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for apartment
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apartment
  1. penthouse
  2. room
  3. lodgings
  4. condominium
  5. suite
  6. flat
  7. tenement
  8. condo
Noun
  • The deals in June included an $80 million duplex penthouse in a new condo building near Manhattan's West Village, a $26 million condo downtown and a $22 million co-op on the Upper East Side.
    — Robert Frank, CNBC, 3 July 2026
  • There are loft-like attributes to them, and also the feeling of living in a penthouse.
    — Deborah Gimelson, Architectural Digest, 3 July 2026
Definition of penthouse
Noun
  • While working on the Venezuela rescue mission, Short and the other team members were recently firing up a smoker for burgers and roasted potatoes in the kitchen a floor below their conference room.
    — Seamus Bozeman Follow, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
  • The ruins of Dungeness, a 59-room, 37,000-square-foot estate house dating to the mid-1880s, once owned by Thomas Carnegie, brother and business partner of Pittsburgh steel magnate Andrew Carnegie.
    — Jennifer Peebles, AJC.com, 7 July 2026
Definition of room
Noun
  • From the military to the mountains Like many other words in the English language, Hurd says, the word comes from the French word camp, which means temporary military lodgings.
    — Natalie Escobar, NPR, 25 June 2026
  • The plan is for the team to make a four-hour bus ride to Inglewood to play, and then return to lodgings in Mexico.
    — Pat Maio, Daily News, 7 June 2026
Definition of lodgings
Noun
  • The most violent wind report came from Northbrook, where half of a roof on a 20-car garage was lifted and then dropped, damaging at least seven cars in a parking shelter for a condominium.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • Security video reportedly shows Carman entering a condominium hand in hand with the teen, then later leaving alone, hauling a large suitcase toward a deserted area alongside the railway.
    — Jintamas Saksornchai, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
Definition of condominium
Noun
  • Blake Lively and Ice Spice were seen celebrating in Swift's suite.
    — Bryan West, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • The two-story space features professional recording studios, podcast and video suites, co-working lounges and meeting spaces, which are slated to open by early next year once permits are approved, Ihm says.
    — Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
Definition of suite
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  • Break up a black-and-white outfit with juicy pops of color, like this creator’s apple-green flats or the lavender patent leather pair below.
    — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 4 July 2026
  • The Billabong Waves Call Cotton Romper is an eye-catching deal for just $36, and it can be styled with sneakers, flats, or sandals to add impressive versatility to your suitcase.
    — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026
Definition of flat
Noun
  • This is the era of people really waking up to what tenement life was like.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 11 June 2026
  • No one wants to go back to the days of tenements and apartments with insufficient ventilation or light.
    — Michael Schill, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
Definition of tenement
Noun
  • The start of condo construction was slowed by lawsuits from the county and the preservation group Dade Heritage Trust.
    — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
  • Love seeing the grilling episodes of our brethren here, so adding some of my own - my version of surf & turf from our vacation condo here in Clearwater Beach, FL.
    — Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
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