apartment | Definition of apartment

Synonyms and Antonyms of apartment

1 a room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place

a spacious six-room apartment that occupies the entire upper floor of a two-family house

Synonyms of apartment

diggings [chiefly British], digs, flat [chiefly British], lodgings, suite, tenement

Words Related to apartment

bed-sitter (also bedsit) [British], cohousing, condo, condominium, duplex, duplex apartment, efficiency, efficiency apartment, flatlet [British], floor-through, garden apartment, granny flat [chiefly British], maisonette, penthouse, railroad flat, salon, saloon [chiefly British], studio, studio apartment, triplex, walk-up

apartment building, apartment house, tenement house

2 an area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall

the museum sets aside this large central apartment to display special exhibitions

Synonyms of apartment

cell, chamber, closet, room

Words Related to apartment

accommodation, bay, berth, booth, cabin, compartment, cubicle

alcove, niche, nook, recess

snuggery [chiefly British]