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apartmentnoun

uk ​ /əˈpɑːt.mənt/ us ​ /əˈpɑːrt.mənt/

A2 [ C ] mainly US UK usually flat a set of rooms for living in, especially on one floor of a building:

I'll give you the keys to my apartment.
They have six luxury apartments for sale.
a holiday apartment
apartments [ plural ]

› a set of large rooms with expensive furniture and decoration in, for example, a public building or castle:

The Royal Apartments are open to the public.

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(Definition of “apartment” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

“apartment” in American English

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apartmentnoun [ C ]

us ​ /əˈpɑrt·mənt/ abbreviation apt., esp. Br flat

› a set of rooms for living in that includes a kitchen and a bathroom:

They lived in a six-room apartment on the eighth floor.

› An apartment is also an apartment building

(Definition of “apartment” from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

“apartment” in Business English

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apartmentnoun [ C ]

uk ​ /əˈpɑːtmənt/ us ​ UK also flat

› PROPERTY a set of rooms for living in that are part of a larger building and are usually all on one floor:

He rents an apartment near his workplace.
a one-bedroom/two-bedroom apartment
an apartment block/building/complex

(Definition of “apartment” from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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