| 单词 | apartment |
| 释义 | apartment (once / 134 pages) n An apartment is a private residence in a building or house that's divided into several separate dwellings. An apartment can be one small room or several. An apartment is a flat — it's usually a few rooms that you rent in a building. Your apartment might be in a fancy high rise with a doorman and an elevator, or over your parents' garage. Since the 1640s, an apartment has meant "separate rooms within a house," from the Italian word appartimento, which literally means "a separated place." WORD FAMILYapartment: apartments USAGE EXAMPLESThe slowdown, he said, is being driven not by a pullback in demand but rather a flood of new apartments. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) In a separate incident, a man was shot at a Tulsa apartment complex on New Year’s Day. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Unable to afford its Bronx apartment, the family was evicted, and Ms. Farquharson and her children moved into a shelter in early 2013. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) n a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house Syn|Hypo|Hyper flat bedsit, bedsitter, bedsitting room a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing) cold-water flatan apartment without modern conveniences duplex, duplex apartmentan apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase efficiency apartmenta furnished apartment with a kitchenette and bathroom flatleta tiny flat maisonette, maisonnettea self-contained apartment (usually on two floors) in a larger house and with its own entrance from the outside penthousean apartment located on the top floors of a building railroad flatan apartment whose rooms are all in a line with doors between them studio, studio apartmentan apartment with a living space and a bathroom and a small kitchen rooms, suiteapartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel) walk-up, walk-up apartmentan apartment in a building without an elevator housing, living accommodations, lodging structures collectively in which people are housed |
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