apartment
pronunciation
How to pronounce apartment in British English:
UK [əˈpɑːtmənt]
How to pronounce apartment in American English:
US [əˈpɑːrtmənt]
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- Noun:
- a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
Word Origin
- apartment (n.)
- 1640s, "private rooms for the use of one person within a house," from French appartement (16c.), from Italian appartimento, literally "a separated place," from appartere "to separate," from a "to" (see ad-) + parte "side, place," from Latin partem (see part (n.)). Sense of "set of private rooms in a building entirely of these" (the U.S. equivalent of British flat) is first attested 1874.
Example
- 1. And he now lives in his own apartment .
- 2. Nikolay was also granted an apartment .
- 3. Then use them as decorations around your apartment .
- 4. And she has a new boyfriend , who has just bought himself a new apartment .
- 5. Does your apartment have a gym onsite ?