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# apartment

«apartment» in Mova's school dictionary: **a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an apartment, apartments)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An apartment is a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a bigger building. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apartment/#m2)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «apartment» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/apartment/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.