apartment

apartment
noun
1 (esp. AmE) a flat
ADJECTIVE
▪ large, spacious
▪ cramped, small, tiny
▪ cozy (AmE)
▪ comfortable, luxury
▪ dingy, shabby
▪

Colin lives in a dingy one-room apartment with his pet turtles.

▪ modern
▪ one-bedroom, two-bedroom, etc., one-bedroomed, two-bedroomed, etc. (BrE)
▪ studio
▪ first-floor, second-floor, etc.
▪ downstairs, upstairs
▪

the people who live in the upstairs apartment

▪ basement, loft, penthouse
▪ high-rise
▪

Larger cities have many high-rise apartments.

▪ rental (AmE), rented
▪ empty
▪ holiday, self-catering (both BrE)
VERB + APARTMENT
▪ buy
▪ lease, rent, sublet
▪

We will be renting the apartment for a year.

▪ live in, share, stay in
▪

I share an apartment with two friends.

▪ look for
▪

I'm looking for an apartment on the east side of the city.

▪ find
▪ move into, move out of
▪ clean, decorate, furnish, renovate
APARTMENT + NOUN
▪ block (BrE), building (AmE), complex, house (AmE)
▪

high-rise apartment buildings

▪ living
▪ dweller
▪

Apartment dwellers can participate in community gardens.

2 apartments (BrE) set of rooms
ADJECTIVE
▪ private, royal, state
▪

the private apartments of the imperial family


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