apartment
noun
a room or a group of related rooms, among similar sets in one building, designed for use as a dwelling.
apartments
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pluralof apartment.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“Window heat pumps are an easy fit with 10% and 15% of Boston Housing Authority buildings,” or hundreds of apartments, says Joel Wool, the authority’s deputy administrator for sustainability and capital transformation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
The giant property stocks, real-estate investment trusts that own hundreds of thousands of apartments and single-family homes across the country, have been plunging for months.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Such is the demand for them that some public apartments are allocated by lottery.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Later plans to transform the fire-damaged church into 18 apartments also did not come to fruition.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The apartments were stuffed to overflowing, and people huddled in the hallways.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
