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单词 apartment
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apartmentn.

Brit. /əˈpɑːtm(ə)nt/, U.S. /əˈpɑrtmənt/
Forms: Also 1600s–1700s app-; 1600s appartiment.
Etymology: < French appartement, < medieval Latin appartīmentum, < appartīre to apportion, < Latin ad to + partīre 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. archaic.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
3. Separate, proper, or special place of abode; quarters; place appropriated to any purpose. Obsolete.
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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.
4. A separate division of any enclosure; a compartment. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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