apartment
uh-PART-muhnt/əˈpɑɹt.mənt/uh-PAHT-muhnt/əˈpɑːt.mənt/
Pluralapartments
- 1A home inside a larger building, usually rented, with its own rooms and front door.
Like one slice of a cake: your own piece of a bigger building.
We rented a small apartment near the train station.
Their apartment has two bedrooms and a balcony.
UsageYou live in an apartment. The whole building is an apartment building.
- 2A set of private rooms within a home, including a bedroom, reserved for a particular person or group.
Like having your own set of rooms in a big house, just for you.
The duke gave his guest a comfortable apartment on the upper floor.
Her apartment in the manor had its own sitting room and bedroom.
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- 3A part of a space that is shut off from the other parts.
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Less common meaning
- 4In programs that run many tasks at once, a separate space for objects, which reach other spaces only through a go-between.
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Origin
From French appartement, which came from Italian and Spanish words meaning "separation" or "seclusion."
Checked 6 Nov 2026 · 4 facts
- English apartment comes from French appartement. en.wiktionary.org
- French appartement derives through Italian from Spanish. en.wiktionary.org
- Italian appartamento has a sense referring to the act of separating or setting apart. it.wiktionary.org
- Spanish apartamiento means separation or seclusion. en.wiktionary.org