studio apartment
Americannoun
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an apartment consisting of one main room, a kitchen or kitchenette, and a bathroom.
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(formerly) a one-room apartment having a high ceiling and large windows.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of studio apartment
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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I need to decide what I can afford when it comes to storing the belongings from my studio apartment and how much longer I can stay in New York.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
Holed up in a studio apartment in Brooklyn, N.Y., he has lost the most important people in his life and now waits to be killed—why and by whom, we learn much later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
“I stayed on my friends’ couch near the Hollywood Improv on Melrose, and a couple months later, got my own studio apartment in the Miracle Mile area,” Notaro says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
Eventually, I left the sheet pan behind — somewhere between my first studio apartment and the next lease, in that subtle evolution from making do to wanting more.
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2026
After two weeks, Kathy and Zeitoun were still in the studio apartment, and the kids were ready to return to New Orleans.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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