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sub-apartment

noun

Etymology

From sub- + apartment.

  1. derived from apartamiento — “separation, seclusion”
  2. derived from appartamento
  3. borrowed from appartement
  4. prefixed as sub-apartment — “sub + apartment”

Definitions

  1. An apartment forming part of a larger apartment.

    • […] the same crowded conditions in each of the five one-room and my friends' two-room (for five adults) subapartments of the communal apartment.
    • The buildings had been converted to small rooms and sub-apartments, one stacked inside another.
    • The royal quarters arced on either side like a horseshoe, and our temporary home was to the very end of the hall, in a sub-apartment that opened with yet another bio-lock.

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