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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
apartment
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a luxury hotel/home/apartment
▪ They stayed at luxury hotels during their trip.
an apartment block
▪ I met him at his apartment block in Manhattan.
an apartment complexAmerican English
▪ a luxury apartment complex on Fulton Street
apartment block
home/hotel/apartment etc
▪ This is a friendly and comfortable hotel.
penthouse apartment/flat/suite
self-catering accommodation/apartment/cottage etc
view a house/an apartment/a property (=go to see a house etc that you are interested in buying)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
▪ Aida's family own a large apartment near the city centre.
▪ Just two weeks ago, he voted to approve a rezoning to allow a paint shop next to a large apartment building.
▪ It was a large studio apartment at the top of a solidly built Edwardian villa tucked behind Regent's Park Road.
▪ This time she took him to a room in a large apartment block set near factories and oil-storage tanks.
▪ It was a large, first-floor apartment which had been furnished as a suitable setting for an up-and-coming superstar.
▪ When Peter was born a few years later, the family was living in a large apartment on Riverside Drive.
new
▪ More modestly, the same agents are offering six new apartments at Kingswear with views across to Dartmouth.
▪ An estimated 12, 000 new apartments are scheduled to be built in 1996, raising the flag about too many apartments.
▪ Finally my father found her a new apartment in a project on the Upper West Side.
▪ She took a trip around the world and then be-came involved in buying a new apartment.
▪ Many former barrio homeowners ended up in the new apartments.
▪ As we drove back to their new apartment he fell asleep across her lap.
▪ We sublet our New York apartment and gave up the one in Philadelphia.
▪ She has a new apartment, a new man, a new life.
private
▪ Lowtherstown Court has 25 private apartments designed to meet the needs of older people.
▪ They had private homes or apartments, country estates, special restaurants and shops.
▪ She didn't hear the murmur until she was standing right outside the door to Luke's private apartment.
▪ A lot of these buildings are co-housing: private apartments with communal kitchens and so on.
▪ There was only one other place he could be: in his private apartments on the third floor.
▪ Half a century before their quest was begun, an inventory was taken of the private apartments in Buckingham Palace.
▪ The family is staying in a private apartment loaned by Fergie's friend, brewing heir Peter Greenall.
▪ There are also small hotels, pensions, private villas and apartments.
small
▪ We have the ability to suit requirements ranging from small apartments from £200 per week to large houses from £2,500 per week.
▪ For 10 days, many small apartment buildings and old wooden houses had no heat.
▪ Vesa had been living in a small apartment in the Mids since their aunt had died a year back.
▪ There was a simplicity about the small apartment that I liked.
▪ He quotes about £30,000 for a small inland farmhouse or ruin needing restoration and about £25,000 for a small apartment.
▪ Then Marc Klaas drives to the small apartment he shares with his parents and sits down to write.
▪ The small apartment on Riverside Drive sounded as though it was already full to overflowing.
▪ Middle-class living standards here far surpass life in Moscow, where many still live dormitory-style in small apartments.
tiny
▪ Maidstone rented a tiny apartment at the top of a very dilapidated building in the Vomero.
▪ Our tiny apartment, it is true, is barely suited for two people, and certainly not for four.
▪ He is sitting in the living room in our tiny apartment in Nigawa.
▪ We have tiny apartments and kids and computers that eat up our spare time and money, for goodness' sakes.
▪ Fannie and Laura share a tiny loft apartment.
▪ This is a tiny little one-bedroom apartment, Bernie.
■ NOUN
block
▪ The joint venture is also planning a hotel and an office building next to the main apartment block.
▪ This time she took him to a room in a large apartment block set near factories and oil-storage tanks.
▪ On the outskirts of Tabor there were long rows of multi-storey apartment blocks of an extraordinary ugliness; many flats looked empty.
▪ Accordingly, he had indeed doubled the surveillance team, detailing two men to each side of the Eldorado apartment block.
▪ Marina's is an old apartment block on Putnik Street.
▪ A quiet street and the beard stood in the shade of an apartment block doorway.
▪ Damian got out, his arm around Domino, and they ran into an apartment block.
▪ Dozens of people were seen leaping from windows in the apartment blocks.
building
▪ The city is subsidizing private property managers to renovate and buy 200 city-owned apartment buildings.
▪ For 10 days, many small apartment buildings and old wooden houses had no heat.
▪ Treacherous relief replaced amusement and was followed by a great surge of pure excitement as she glanced up at their apartment building.
▪ It provides hot water units for apartment buildings and swimming pools.
▪ Television showed the apartment buildings spewing smoke and flames and chaotic scenes of paramedics treating people on the ground.
▪ Mr Roche was a tiny man who lived in a bungalow behind the apartment building.
▪ Check those apartment buildings next door-who owns them?
complex
▪ They encircle many of the city's apartment complexes.
▪ Police Sunday did not reveal whether the suspect they arrested early Sunday at an apartment complex was the man in the photograph.
▪ The plan calls for a three-story, 42-unit apartment complex that would also include retail shops.
▪ Next time, it was a man on foot who circled the fence around the eight-story apartment complex.
▪ Then the townhouses give way to dowdy apartment complexes with grimy windows facing the street.
▪ Next door, contractors Jeannine and Jack Perriseau are re-building another apartment complex that also was destroyed by the quake.
door
▪ Spiked cages surround baroque colonial villas; apartment doors are reinforced and guarded at gunpoint.
▪ The apartment door was already standing open and the hallway smelled of stale smoke.
▪ She had her own key to the front door of the house and the apartment door.
▪ It was a woman who opened the apartment door.
▪ Trent would then look through the apartment door peephole.
▪ I taught Carolyn once, and in a pinch she can open her apartment door without her keys.
▪ And inside my apartment door, even with the two locks to undo.
▪ Sherman passed apartment doors with innumerable locks, one above the other in drunken columns.
house
▪ I bet if you walked into any of those apartment houses or office blocks, you'd find zero.
▪ Seated at a small table in my room, I figured out how I would meet the expenses of our apartment house.
▪ There were now three official cars outside the apartment house.
▪ Across the street a doorman stood under the canopy of an apartment house, smoking a cigarette.
▪ It was Sunday and they had all found rooms in a commercial apartment house.
▪ This genteel neighborhood of tree-lined streets and solid apartment houses used to be the most fashionable address in Lima.
▪ Her apartment house was an imposing Napoleonic block which presented solid, unwelcoming doors to the street.
▪ On this side of the street, where he was walking, was a cliff of elegant apartment houses overlooking the museum.
studio
▪ Twice, Judy had been evicted from her studio apartment for nonpayment of rent.
▪ Vegh was the whole staff, assisted by his answering machine and his MacIntosh computer in his University Heights studio apartment.
▪ It was a large studio apartment at the top of a solidly built Edwardian villa tucked behind Regent's Park Road.
▪ We were cramped in my studio apartment, but the thought of the family being together was reassuring.
▪ Do you know what studio apartments are renting for in this neighborhood?
▪ Without discussing it with her, I found myself a small studio apartment and moved out.
■ VERB
build
▪ The two-year scheme involves converting the 1960s-#built Royal Mail House building into 324 apartments across 14 storeys.
▪ Sketch phase of the approval process to build 408 apartments on 24.01 acres.
▪ Instead I built my own apartment.
▪ Construction workers use scaffolds today to build multiple-story apartments.
▪ For Charlie Swibel, building the apartment towers was coming a long way from being a flophouse and slum operator.
buy
▪ But now we're thinking of buying an apartment in Bombay because of this business we are starting with Keith and Doreen.
▪ But why would anyone buy their apartment if they now pay only 1 percent of their income for their current apartment?
▪ The city is subsidizing private property managers to renovate and buy 200 city-owned apartment buildings.
▪ Not long ago I met with a group of foreign Service officials who had been ordered to buy their current apartments.
▪ Want to buy underpriced apartments in a glamorous location that has few vacancies and little competition from new construction?
▪ She took a trip around the world and then be-came involved in buying a new apartment.
▪ Spiegel said Elizabeth Dole bought the apartment more than 10 years ago for $ 150, 000.
▪ Everyone was talking about it, exchanging the latest details: who pocketed the money, where they bought the apartments.
find
▪ Landlords were not pleased to find that their apartment blocks had overnight become the property of the tenants.
▪ I have to find an apartment somewhere.
▪ Finally my father found her a new apartment in a project on the Upper West Side.
▪ It was only by the damnedest luck I found his apartment.
▪ If she combed the hotels she could find him, but she could never find him in an apartment.
▪ She just found an apartment in San Jose.
▪ Fran Johnson found her the furnished apartment and helped her settle in.
leave
▪ She was still lying on the carpet five minutes later when he left the apartment.
▪ So I had been able to admire the strategic splendor of leaving me in our apartment.
▪ They'd left Rune's apartment almost immediately after breakfast.
▪ If you left fingerprints in his apartment, well, so what?
▪ He knew it was impossible for the Prophet to have left the apartment.
▪ As I recall, the trouble started Soon after we left the apartment, while we were still on our own stoop.
▪ By the time he left the apartment, it was raining.
▪ It was eighteen degrees Fahrenheit when he left his apartment this morning, it was over ninety when they arrived.
live
▪ Nicolas, 32, and his 31-year-old wife live in a modest apartment and friends say pride stopped them getting in touch with her.
▪ He had lived in this apartment for ten years, most of them with Mariah.
▪ Vanessa Smith and Shantel had been visiting a cousin, who lived in an apartment in back of theirs.
▪ Curtis Seber, who lived in the apartment where the fire began, said he returned to see the building in flames.
▪ Their names would not appear in the lists of people living in the shattered apartment blocks.
▪ Few actually will live in the apartments or homes they are buying.
▪ At this time Luke was living in a two-bedroom apartment on Yokum Drive.
move
▪ Two weeks later, she moved into his Manhattan apartment.
▪ But she soon split with her husband, and she and Nicolae moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Huntington Beach.
▪ Renters who move into a vacated apartment face the rude awakening of the market rate an owner is permitted to charge.
▪ Richard moved back to his apartment.
▪ Perhaps he would move into the apartment.
▪ So I married Jake and moved into an apartment a block away from my parents.
own
▪ Consider what happened to investors in a Los Angeles-based firm that owned a string of apartments and shopping centers across the West.
rent
▪ Yes, they said, her husband had indeed rented the apartment, from March 1985 to September 1989.
▪ In other words, when people rented furnished apartments, they were influenced by the style of the interiors.
▪ Maidstone rented a tiny apartment at the top of a very dilapidated building in the Vomero.
▪ Later, they rented an apartment to other refugees in a building they own.
▪ Alison rented an apartment near the hospital.
▪ Ellie had told me, two weeks after renting her apartment, that soon she would move out of the cabin.
▪ Zborowski had rented an apartment in the Rue Masséna, but Modigliani was restless and unsettled living in a constrained atmosphere.
share
▪ It is the place where the two writers and philosophers shared an apartment.
▪ I share an apartment with two others a student nurse and a sometime artist.
▪ Prices are based on 4 people sharing an apartment.
▪ Most families share their apartment with another family, or two.
▪ She knew a couple of friends elsewhere who lived together under the pretense of sharing an apartment or duplex.
▪ Prices are based on 3 sharing a one bedroomed apartment.
▪ Fannie and Laura share a tiny loft apartment.
stay
▪ Her mind was taken up with puzzling over a fact which had become increasingly clear the longer she stayed in the apartment.
▪ We never did stay in the apartment.
▪ If I stay in my apartment, or if I go home to my house, I am lonely.
▪ Only Mr Bumbieris stayed on in the apartments for years rather than moving to another part of the city.
▪ Whilst working, I stayed in an apartment only 20 minutes' walk from Times Square.
▪ Or you can stay upstairs in your apartment and the same thing will be true.
▪ The family is staying in a private apartment loaned by Fergie's friend, brewing heir Peter Greenall.
▪ He stayed in the new apartment for three days.
walk
▪ And he had seen me walking from my hotel apartment with Dana - Americano, he said disdainfully.
▪ Primo walks into his apartment, and sets the paper and the bottle of wine on the table.
▪ He walked back to his apartment in a downpour, getting drenched in spite of his umbrella.
▪ She was walking toward her apartment building.
▪ He walked into a modern apartment.
▪ Formerly an avid jogger and weight-lifter, Turner leans on a cane to walk around her small apartment on good days.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
next-door apartment/office etc
rented accommodation/housing/apartment etc
▪ Ed, who lives in rented accommodation, plans to use the money as a down-payment on a house.
▪ Many are trapped in the inner cores because of the unavailability of rented housing beyond the cities.
▪ Many potential homeowners decided to sit out the recession in rented accommodation, leaving their money in high-earning accounts.
▪ The group will also recommend improved access to private rented accommodation through rent deposit schemes.
▪ The report points out that the idea of local housing companies as landlord bodies for social rented housing originated in Glasgow.
▪ They remain very vulnerable in privately rented accommodation as they can often be ignorant of their rights.
▪ This would apply to rented accommodation, council houses, etc.
▪ Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a one-bedroom apartment
▪ High-rise apartment buildings have gone up where once there was open land.
▪ Small apartment buildings filled with families line the street.
▪ There was no point in paying rent for an empty apartment.
▪ They went back to her apartment for a cup of coffee.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But she soon split with her husband, and she and Nicolae moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Huntington Beach.
▪ I walked the stretch of road from our apartment to the Mekong Grocery.
▪ Oh, they had a fantastic apartment in New York as well, and two beautiful children.
▪ One night, in the late 70s, a large group of people broke into Zofia's apartment while Bronislaw was away.
▪ Our tiny apartment, it is true, is barely suited for two people, and certainly not for four.
▪ Primo walks into his apartment, and sets the paper and the bottle of wine on the table.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apartment

Apartment \A*part"ment\, n. [F. appartement; cf. It. appartamento, fr. appartare to separate, set apart; all fr. L. ad + pars, partis, part. See Apart.]

  1. A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions.
    --Fielding.

  2. A set or suite of rooms.
    --De Quincey.

  3. A compartment. [Obs.]
    --Pope.

  4. A room or suite of rooms in a building comprising a dwelling unit separate from others in the building, and typically having its own separate bath, sanitary, and kitchen facilities. Such apartments are in most cases rented from the owner by those dwelling in them.

    efficiency apartment, a small apartment[4], sometimes furnished, with minimal kitchen and bath facilities. The unit may comprise a single room plus a bathroom, and the kitchen facilities are often open to the main room, or may form a small niche in a corner. There are many variations of efficiency apartment, including some in which furnishings such as a bed may be pull out from a wall recess and stored there again when not in use. Also called an efficiency.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
apartment

1640s, "private rooms for the use of one person within a house," from French appartement (16c.), from Italian appartimento, literally "a separated place," from appartere "to separate," from a "to" (see ad-) + parte "side, place," from Latin partem (see part (n.)). Sense of "set of private rooms in a building entirely of these" (the U.S. equivalent of British flat) is first attested 1874.

Wiktionary
apartment

n. 1 A complete domicile occupying only part of a building. 2 (context archaic English) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom. 3 (context obsolete English) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment

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WordNet
apartment

n. a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house [syn: flat]

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Wikipedia
Apartment

An apartment (in American and Canadian English) or a flat (in British English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building, correctly, on a single level without a stair. Such a building may be called an apartment building, apartment complex, apartment house (in American English), Flat complex, block of flats, tower block, high-rise or, occasionally mansion block (in British English), especially if it consists of many apartments for rent. In Scotland it is called a block of flats or, if it's a traditional sandstone building, a tenement, which has a pejorative connotation elsewhere. Apartments may be owned by an owner/occupier, by leasehold tenure or rented by tenants (two types of housing tenure).

Apartment (disambiguation)

An apartment is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building. In the USA and Canada an "apartment" means a flat.

Apartment may also refer to:

  • Apartment (London band), a UK alternative rock band
  • Apartment (Bristol band), an English post-punk band
  • Apartment (film), a 2010 Bollywood film
  • Apartment (Custard song), 1995
  • Apartment (Young the Giant song), 2010
  • The Apartment, a 1960 American film
  • The Apartment (1996 film), a French film directed by Gilles Mimouni
  • "The Apartment" (Seinfeld), a 1991 episode of Seinfeld
  • The Apartment (album), a 1974 album by jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon
  • The Apartments, an Australian indie band
  • "The Apartment", an episode of Full House
  • Multi-Threaded Apartment, in Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM)
Apartment (London band)

Apartment was an English four-piece alternative rock band from London. They formed in 2005 and were signed to Filthy Lucre and Fleet Street Records. The band toured with The Bravery, Delays, Editors, Jimmy Eat World and British Sea Power amongst others. They also appeared on a co-headline tour of France with The Kooks. They shared many stages with fellow East-Londoners Boy Kill Boy. They released their debut album, The Dreamer Evasive, in 2007. The song from the album "Fall Into Place" was also selected to be featured in the game FIFA 08, as well as in the first season episode of Chuck, " Chuck Versus the Wookiee".

Apartment (film)

Apartment is a 2010 Bollywood thriller film directed by Jag Mundhra. The film stars Tanushree Dutta, Neetu Chandra, Rohit Roy and Anupam Kher in the lead roles. The film was released on 23 April 2010, under the banner of Magna Films.

Apartment (Young the Giant song)

"Apartment" is a song by American alternative rock band Young the Giant from their 2010 self-titled debut album. Written by the band and released as a single in 2012, it peaked at number 26 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart. Two music videos for "Apartment" were filmed, and the song was remixed in 2011 by Captain Cuts.

Apartment (Custard song)

"Apartment" is the first single from Wisenheimer, the third album by Australian band Custard. It reached #7 in the 1995 Hottest 100.

Apartment (Bristol band)

Apartment were an English post-punk band formed in Bristol, UK in late 1978. Fronted by Alan Griffiths -Vocals/Guitar, with Emil on Drums and Richard White playing Bass. They appeared on Heartbeat Records 1979 seminal ' Avon Calling' Bristol Compilation album with the track 'The Alternative'. In early 1980 they released a double A-sided single 'The Car / 'Winter' also on Heartbeat. They were later joined by Steve Street from Europeans on Bass.

The band split up in summer 1980, and Alan Griffiths (with Emil) would later go on to form The Escape, whilst Steve Street continued his production work and briefly joined Bath band Interview. The Escape signed to Phonogram Records & in late 1983 toured as a support act for Tears For Fears. Alan Griffiths later went on to tour with Tears For Fears as a guitarist on their 1985 Big Chair world tour. Following Curt Smith's departure from Tears For Fears in 1990, Alan Griffiths became Roland Orzabal's new musical partner and co-wrote, co-produced, and performed on the TFF albums Elemental (1993) and Raoul and the Kings of Spain (1995), as well as Orzabal's 2001 solo album Tomcats Screaming Outside.

In 2009, Bristol Archive Records released a downloadable album by Apartment called House Of Secrets.

In September 2010, two Apartment tracks "Broken Glass" & "The Retrospect" were included on the CD release of "Avon Calling 2" released by Bristol Archive Records.

In February 2014, two Apartment tracks "The Car" & "Winter" were included on the CD release of "The Best Of Heartbeat Records" released by Bristol Archive Records

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Usage examples of "apartment".

Both the admin and the assembly buildings had apartments that had been used by the top people assigned to Aquarius.

I go to your apartment, Alan, and what do I see there but a cute brown-haired girl wearing jeans.

SOON AS the door to the apartment opened and Amad exited, an MI5 agent passed through the lobby and stared at the elevator button.

Laveau stepped back into the well-furnished apartment, waving Argent and Archangel in behind her.

The Grand Duke and Duchess were at dinner in their private apartments with Astasia, Vassian, and other court officials.

She said that Azgar and Astell would find them apartments in a Meldrith house in Kellmarsh as soon as they wished.

By the end of July 1999, he had returned to Hamburg, applying to study shipbuilding at the Technical University and, more significantly, residing once again with Atta and Binalshibh, in an apartment at 54 Marienstrasse.

Beyond rose the apartment houses where the middle and lower classes lived, those of the poorer characterized by few windows and cracking plaster, and those of the better-off by the wonderful multistoried murals painted by the gypsy artists, and by the brilliant azurine tiles which kept the houses warm in winter and cool in summer.

At length she ushered me into a living room cozily furnished in the manner of a bachelorette apartment and insisted I take a seat on the sofa, then went through a door into the next room, reappearing seconds later carrying a tray on which were glasses and a bottle of red wine.

I switched from adequately well off to poor and back, staying in small apartments or back rooms but never in shelters, because the government goons running them might happen to be alert enough to notice me.

He should have given the last of his baht to the Dung Lord and rented body-space in an apartment with windows facing east so that he could see the rising sun, and wake early.

On the day following she stole out of the house into the town and made her way to the Kasbah, and Ali found her in the apartments of the wife of the Basha, who had lit upon her as she seemed to ramble aimlessly through the courtyard from the Treasury to the Hall of Justice, and from there to the gate of the prison.

The bather passes from one apartment to another, each one being of a higher temperature than the preceding.

The bather then returns through the various apartments, and, upon emerging from that of the lowest temperature, he experiences a delightful sensation of vigor and elasticity.

The beeper went off while I was still a few blocks away from my apartment, and when I glanced down and noted that the number on the lighted display was unfamiliar, I decided to wait until I got upstairs to return the call.