apartment

Plural: apartments

Noun

a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.
A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment.
A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy.

Examples

apartment dwellers

Origin / Etymology

From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart.

Synonyms

flat, condominium, unit

Scrabble Score: 13

apartment: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
apartment: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
apartment: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

apartment: valid Words With Friends Word