A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
apartment dwellers
A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.
By this contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined. There I saw the empress and the young princes in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.
A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment.
From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart.
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