apartment
apartment (ə-pärtʹmənt) noun
Abbr. apt.
1. A room or suite of rooms designed as a residence and generally located in a building occupied by more than one household.
2. An apartment house: a row of high-rise apartments.
3. A room.
4. apartments Chiefly British. A suite of rooms within a larger building set aside for a particular purpose or person.
[French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from appartare, to separate, from a parte, apart : a, to (from Latin ad-). See ad- + parte, side (from Latin pars, part-). See part.]