# apartment

Pronunciation: US say "uh-PART-muhnt" /əˈpɑɹt.mənt/; UK say "uh-PAHT-muhnt" /əˈpɑːt.mənt/

## Noun

1. A complete home that takes up only part of a larger building, often one available for rent. *(Australia, Canada, Philippines, US)*
   - Simple: A home inside a larger building, usually rented, with its own rooms and front door.
   - _She signed a lease on a one-bedroom apartment downtown._
   - _The building has twelve apartments on each floor._

## Noun

2. A suite of rooms within a residence set aside for a particular person or persons, including a bedroom. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: A set of private rooms within a home, including a bedroom, reserved for a particular person or group.
   - _The countess withdrew to her apartment after the evening's entertainment._
   - _Servants prepared the visiting prince's apartments before his arrival._
3. A division of an enclosed space that is kept separate from the others; a compartment. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: A part of a space that is shut off from the other parts.

## Other meanings

- (noun) In the COM threading architecture, a conceptual space that keeps objects separate, so objects in one cannot directly access those in another and must go through a proxy.

## Origin

Spanish apartamiento, meaning "separation, seclusion," became Italian appartamento and then French appartement, which English took. The word apart is related.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/apartment (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).