apartments
- 1Plural of apartment.
Rents for one-bedroom apartments climbed sharply over the past year.
The developer converted the old factory into loft apartments overlooking the river.
Note
A regular plural, formed with a plain -s, that carries every meaning of the singular. In the US, Canada, Australia and the Philippines it names self-contained homes within a larger building, the units called flats elsewhere. It can also mean the now archaic suites of rooms set aside for particular people. In programming it names isolated spaces in a threading architecture, whose objects reach one another only through a proxy.
apartments is a form of apartment
apartment, noun: A complete home that takes up only part of a larger building, often one available for rent. Full entry
- Forms
- apartmentapartments plural
- Spelling
- apartment → apartments: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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