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# apartment

noun (an apartment, apartments)

«apartment» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An apartment is a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a bigger building. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apartment/#m1)
2. Apartments can also mean a set of rooms for a special use, such as royal apartments in a palace. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apartment/#m2)

### In the lessons

In everyday life it is a common type of home, especially in cities: an apartment building or block, a top-floor apartment. In safety lessons: use the stairs, not the lift, in a fire; know your apartment number. In maths problems apartments are counted by floors (6 floors × 4 apartments each).

### Examples

- We live in an apartment on the fifth floor. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apartment/#x1)
- The apartment building has a lift and a laundry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apartment/#x2)
- Our apartment has two bedrooms and a balcony. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apartment/#x3)
- My cousins moved to a bigger apartment. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apartment/#x4)
- Each floor has 4 apartments, so 6 floors have 24 apartments. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apartment/#x5)
- Pets are not allowed in some apartments. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apartment/#x6)
- They penetrated into the apartments and halls of the palace. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apartment/#x7)

### Note

Countable. In American English «apartment» is usual; in British English «flat» is more common for the same thing. Do not confuse with «department» (a part of a shop, school or government).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «apartment» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apartment/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«apartment» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/apartment.html) on Mova free.