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apartment

noun
/əˈpɑːt.mənt/UK/əˈpɑɹt.mənt/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from apartamiento — “separation, seclusion”
  2. derived from appartamento
  3. borrowed from appartement

Definitions

  1. A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent

    A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.

    • apartment dwellers
    • I am Jonathan. I am in apartment B4. — I am in apartment C2.

  2. A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and…

    A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.

  3. A room within a house.

    • For the matter of that, it is difficult to make a nice, genteel sitting-room out of an apartment of which the principal features are a sink and a big gas stove.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A division of an enclosure that is separate from others

      A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment.

    2. A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one…

      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.

The neighborhood

Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at apartment. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at apartment. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at apartment

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA