APARTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apartment mean? 

• APARTMENT (noun)
  The noun APARTMENT has 1 sense:

1. a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

  Familiarity information: APARTMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APARTMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

apartment; flat

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 

The maids of honour often invited Glumdalclitch to their apartments, and desired she would bring me along with her, on purpose to have the pleasure of seeing and touching me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It was a cosey, well-furnished apartment, with two candles burning upon the table and two upon the mantelpiece.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It may be that the perfect house or apartment will show up now (plus or minus four days) if you have been looking.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In the window was a sumptuous writing-desk, and every detail of the apartment, the pictures, the rugs, and the hangings, all pointed to a taste which was luxurious to the verge of effeminacy.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"In there," pointing to the apartment she had left; and I went in, and there he stood.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He described it as an apartment of the most sumptuous nature, and said that he had drunk brown East India sherry there, of a quality so precious as to make a man wink.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With your permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into the inner apartment.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had also changed my apartment; for he perceived that I had acquired a dislike for the room which had previously been my laboratory.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Finally, a footman opened a door, and we found ourselves in the Prince’s own private apartment.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A very cheerful wood-fire was sputtering and cracking in an open grate at the further end of the apartment.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)