单词 | apartment |
释义 | apartmentn. 1. a. A portion of a house or building, consisting of a suite or set of rooms, allotted to the use of a particular person or party. archaic. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > flat or apartment mansion?c1400 tenement1593 apartmenta1645 basement storey1743 flat1824 house1885 basement flat1894 apt.1901 home unit1929 triplex1932 housing unit1935 a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) iii. iii. 98 He received her..in the most stately appartment of the great Palace of Morocco. 1660 T. Blount Boscobel 44 Mr. George Giffard, who lived in an appartiment of the House. 1709 London Gaz. mmmmcccxcv/2 The Great Hall of his Majesty's Apartment. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) A compleat Apartment must consist at least of a Chamber, an Antichamber, and a Cabinet or Wardrobe. a1794 E. Gibbon Memoirs in Misc. Wks. (1796) I. 33 My apartment consisted of three elegant and well-furnished rooms. 1883 Standard 10 May 8/4 To be let, furnished..a large and handsome Apartment, the residence of an English family leaving Genoa. b. A set of rooms forming one dwelling-place in a building containing a number of these. Chiefly North American. (Corresponding to flat in British use.) ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > flat or apartment > in a block of apartment1874 1874 Scribner's Monthly 8 63/2 The apartments, some of six, others of ten rooms, including kitchen and servants' rooms, are designed for strictly independent house-keeping. 1874 Scribner's Monthly 8 63/2 Each of the family apartments includes a small ante~chamber or private entrance..a parlor,..a kitchen, three bed-rooms, and a bath-room. 1890 Harper's Mag. Jan. 327/1 Mr. and Mrs. Delancy Robinson reside in a cosy flat, or ‘apartment’, as they prefer to call it, in New York city. 1903 N.Y. Evening Post 12 Sept. The chief distinction between a flat and an apartment, according to the accepted definition, is that the apartment has an elevator. 1935 Holt Marvell These Foolish Things 5 A tinkling piano in the next apartment. 2. A single room of a house; the original sense being expressed by the plural apartments. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > [noun] clevec825 chamber?c1225 loftc1385 clochera1400 room1438 roomth1567 receipt1593 stance1632 receptacle1634 stanza1648 apartment1715 slum1819 space1921 shovel and broom1928 1715 in London Gaz. mmmmmcccxxxviii/1 Apartments are fitting up in the..College..for Sig. Aldobrandi. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. xvi. 259 I stole softly to the window of my apartment. 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 11 The curate's lodgings—apartments his landlady would call them. 1879 M. E. Braddon Vixen III. 186 Her morning-room was an airy apartment on the first-floor. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > quarters estre?c1225 liverya1400 efters1532 quarter1570 quarterage1577 quartering1625 apartment1689 camp1747 1689 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum (ed. 2) xli. 311 Fish will..hide themselves in their private apartments. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 185 No other Place or Apartment in the Globe, [etc.]. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 55 When I came down from my Appartment in the Tree. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [noun] > an enclosed space or place > compartment or chamber chambera1398 cellulea1400 partition1465 traversea1500 cell1577 concameration1638 apartment1679 thecaa1680 partitionment1851 compartment1866 cube1937 cubicle1938 1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vii. 130 What Apartments or Partitions to make on your Ground-plot. 1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 397 In case a bullet peirce thro'..and the water come in, it shall come into but one apartment. 1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 74 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. Every Drawer shall be..sub-divided into Cells... The Apartment for Peace or War..may in a very few Days be fill'd with several Arguments perfectly new. Compounds attributive. Designating a building divided into residential suites of rooms (chiefly North American). apartment block n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > block of flats or apartments land1456 tenement1681 tenement house1858 barrack1862 mansions1868 apartment house1874 apartment building1883 single-decker1896 block dwellings1899 project1932 apartment block1955 condominium1962 condo1964 multi1973 1955 Jrnl. Canadian Ling. Assoc. Oct. 5 The classes into which Canadian English words commonly fall..(11). Everyday words formed into combinations unfamiliar abroad, such as apartment block. 1956 D. Gascoyne Night Thoughts 24 Through streets of dwelling-houses and apartment-blocks. apartment building n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > block of flats or apartments land1456 tenement1681 tenement house1858 barrack1862 mansions1868 apartment house1874 apartment building1883 single-decker1896 block dwellings1899 project1932 apartment block1955 condominium1962 condo1964 multi1973 1883 Chicago Tribune 4 May 9/3 To Rent..Flat in elegant apartment building, 7 rooms. apartment hotel n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > hotel hotel1687 hotel garni1744 lodgea1817 gasthof1832 temperance house1833 temperance hotel1837 railway hotel1839 palace hotel1844 parador1845 caravanserai1848 resort hotel1886 metropole1890 Ritz1900 trust house1902 apartment hotel1909 welfare hotel1915 motel1925 motor hotel1925 auto court1926 motor court1936 motor lodge1936 residential1940 botel1956 floatel1959 apartotel1965 motor inn1967 1909 W. P. Eaton & E. M. Underhill Runaway Place 238 The vast apartment hotels along the Park front. apartment house n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > block of flats or apartments land1456 tenement1681 tenement house1858 barrack1862 mansions1868 apartment house1874 apartment building1883 single-decker1896 block dwellings1899 project1932 apartment block1955 condominium1962 condo1964 multi1973 1874 Scribner's Monthly 8 63/1 The pioneer apartment houses in New York are the well-known Stuyvesant Buildings, the first..having been opened in the fall of 1870. 1932 A. Huxley Brave New World v. 88 Henry's forty-story apartment house in Westminster. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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