apartment
//əˈpɑːt.mənt//
Forms
- Plural
- apartments
Definitions
1.A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
- I am Jonathan. I am in apartment B4., I am in apartment C2.
2.A room within a house.
- 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.
3.A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1460
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
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Etymology
From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”).
See apart and -ment.