apartment

apartment
apartmental /euh pahrt men"tl/, adj.
/euh pahrt"meuhnt/, n.
1. a room or a group of related rooms, among similar sets in one building, designed for use as a dwelling.
2. a building containing or made up of such rooms.
3. any separated room or group of rooms in a house or other dwelling: We heard cries from an apartment at the back of the house.
4. apartments, Brit. a set of rooms used as a dwelling by one person or one family.
[1635-45; < F appartement < It appartamento, equiv. to apparta(re) to separate, divide (v. deriv. of a parte APART, to one side) + -mento -MENT]
Syn. 1. APARTMENT, COMPARTMENT agree in denoting a space enclosed by partitions or walls. APARTMENT, however, emphasizes the idea of separateness or privacy: one's own apartment. COMPARTMENT suggests a section of a larger space: compartments in a ship's hold, in an orange crate.

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