The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions.
--Fielding.A set or suite of rooms.
--De Quincey.A compartment. [Obs.]
--Pope.-
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.
efficiency apartment \efficiency apartment\ n., 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 pulled out from a wall recess and stored there again when not in use. Also called an efficiency.
WordNet
n. a furnished apartment with a kitchenette and bathroom
Usage examples of "efficiency apartment".
Hoards what money she has to buy books, pay the rent on an efficiency apartment.
He looked around at the drab, messy efficiency apartment that was the kind of place an emancipated teen might have—.
When the cop opened the door and came into the main room of the tiny efficiency apartment a few minutes later, he looked refreshed.
Twenty years ago Tremaine had created and sold computer gaming software from an efficiency apartment in Oakland.
Unzipping his flight suit to the waist, he looked around his tiny efficiency apartment and shook his head.
She lived alone, in a small efficiency apartment about a block off Clebourne in the west end of town.
There was nothing for it now but to pack up and go homehome to the drab efficiency apartment, to the lonely TV dinners and the evening paper for company.
My efficiency apartment was too damned small for one person, let alone two, and she loomed in all directions.
I live in an efficiency apartment apartment upstairs, although I've begun to wonder if I ought to find something less cramped.
You'd be surprised how much cleaning you can do in a one-room efficiency apartment if you really put your mind to it.