Hypertext Webster Gateway: "apartment"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Apartment \A*part"ment\, n. [F. appartement; cf. It.
appartamento, fr. appartare to separate, set apart; all fr.
L. ad + pars, partis, part. See {Apart}.]
1. A room in a building; a division in a house, separated
from others by partitions. --Fielding.
2. A set or suite of rooms. --De Quincey.
3. A compartment. [Obs.] --Pope.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
apartment
n : a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
[syn: {flat}]
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