# apartment
## English
### Alternative forms

* APT (The US Postal Service prefers this variant)
* apt.

### Etymology

From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əˈpɑːt.mənt/
* (General American) enPR: ə-pärt'mənt, IPA: /əˈpɑɹt.mənt/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

apartment (plural apartments)
* (chiefly Canada, US, Australia, Philippines) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
    apartment dwellers
** 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
    I am Jonathan. I am in apartment B4. — I am in apartment C2.
       Audio (US):(file)
* (archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.
** 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Mildendo, the Metropolis of Lilliput, Described, together with the Emperor’s Palace. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 69:By this contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined. There I saw the empress and the young princes in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.
* (obsolete) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment
** 1883 April 23, Slawson v. Grand Street R. Co., 107 U.S. 649, 2 S.Ct. 663, 664,
    The specification described the ordinary fare-box used in street cars and omnibuses, consisting of two apartments, the one directly above the other.... [T]he passenger deposited his fare in an aperture in the top of the upper apartment. It fell upon and was arrested by a movable platform.... This platform turned on an axis acted on by a lever. When turned, the fare fell into the lower apartment, which was a receptacle for holding the fares accumulated....
* (computing, COM) 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.

#### Synonyms

* (domicile occupying part of a building): flat (UK); unit; (compare with) condominium

#### Derived terms

* apartelle
* aparthotel
* apartmental
* apartment block
* apartment building
* apartment complex
* apartment hotel
* apartment house
* apartmentless
* apartmentlike
* apartmentmate
* apartment-sit
* apartment sit
* apartments to let
* apartotel
* bachelor apartment
* basement apartment
* efficiency apartment
* garage apartment
* garden apartment
* hotel-apartment
* microapartment
* mother-in-law apartment
* multiapartment
* nanoapartment
* studio apartment
* sub-apartment

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: アパートメント (apātomento), アパート (apāto)
** → Hokkien: a-phá-tò
** → Korean: 아파트 (apateu)
* → Malay: اڤرتمن (apartmen)
* → Thai: อพาร์ทเมนท์ (à-páat-mén)

#### Translations

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#### See also

* tenement