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apartment|əˈpɑːtmənt|
Also 7–8 app-; 7 appartiment.
[a. Fr. appartement, ad. med.L. appartīmentum, f. appartīre to apportion, f. L. ad to + partī-re to divide, share.]
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. arch.
1641Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 14 Our new lodgings..a very handsome apartment just over against the Hall-court. 1660Blount Boscobel i. (1680) 65 Mr. George Giffard who lived in an appartiment of the house. 1709Lond. Gaz. mmmmcccxcv/2 The Great Hall of his Majesty's Apartment. 1751Chambers Cycl. s.v., A compleat Apartment must consist of a hall, a chamber, an antechamber, a closet, and a cabinet or wardrobe. a1794Gibbon Autobiogr. 27 My apartment consisted of three elegant and well-furnished rooms. 1883Standard 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 N. Amer. (Corresponding to flat in British use.)
1874Scribner's Monthly VIII. 63/2 The apartments, some of six, others of ten rooms, including kitchen and servants' rooms, are designed for strictly independent house-keeping. Ibid., Each of the family apartments includes a small ante⁓chamber or private entrance..a parlor,..a kitchen, three bed-rooms, and a bath-room. 1890Harper'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. 1903N.Y. Even. Post 12 Sept., The chief distinction between a flat and an apartment, according to the accepted definition, is that the apartment has an elevator. 1935Holt Marvell These Foolish Things 5 A tinkling piano in the next apartment.
c. attrib.: apartment house, a building divided into residential suites of rooms (chiefly N. Amer.); so apartment block, apartment building, apartment hotel.
1874Scribner's Monthly VIII. 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. 1883Chicago Tribune 4 May 9/3 To Rent..Flat in elegant apartment building, 7 rooms. 1909Eaton & Underhill Runaway Place 238 The vast apartment hotels along the Park front. 1932A. Huxley Brave New World v. 88 Henry's forty-story apartment house in Westminster. 1955Jrnl. 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. 1956D. Gascoyne Night Thoughts 24 Through streets of dwelling-houses and apartment-blocks.
2. A single room of a house; the original sense being expressed by the plur. apartments.
1715in Lond. Gaz. mmmmmcccxxxviii/1 Apartments are fitting up in the..College..for Sig. Aldobrandi. 1815Scott Guy M. xvi, I stole softly to the window of my apartment. 1824Mary Mitford Our Village Ser. i. (1863) 8 The curate's lodgings—apartments his landlady would call them. 1879M. E. Braddon Vixen III. 186 Her morning-room was an airy apartment on the first-floor.
†3. Separate, proper, or special place of abode; quarters; place appropriated to any purpose. Obs.
1681J. Chetham Angler's Vade-mec. xli. §6 Fish will..hide themselves in their private apartments. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth iv. (1723) 205 No other Place or Apartment in the Globe, etc. 1719De Foe Crusoe 54 When I came down from my Appartment in the Tree.
†4. A separate division of any enclosure; a compartment. Obs.
1692Luttrell Brief Rel. II. (1857) 397 In case a bullet peirce thro'..and the water come in, it shall come into but one apartment. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 127 What Apartments, or Partitions, to make on your Ground-plot. 1727Pope, etc. Art Sinking 115 Every drawer shall be sub-divided into cells..The apartment for peace or war..may in a very few days be filled with several arguments perfectly new. |