Apartment
Apartment noun - A room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place.
Usage example: a spacious six-room apartment that occupies the entire upper floor of a two-family house
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Synonyms for Apartment
Flat
Flat noun - A room or set of rooms in a private house or a block used as a separate dwelling place.
Usage example: had to take on a third roommate in order to afford the bigger flat
Apartment is a synonym for flat (British) in accommodation topic. You can use "Apartment" instead a noun "Flat", if it concerns topics such as building, suite, pad, rooms. popular alternative
How words are described
| burning | burning apartment | burning flat |
| old | old apartment | old flat |
| nice | nice apartment | nice flat |
| free | free apartment | free flat |
| Other adjectives: empty, shabby, small, entire, large, wrong, little, tiny, squalid, dingy, cozy, comfortable, former, shared, rundown, haunted, different, upstairs, neighboring, downstairs, high-rise, rented, trashed. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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In "The Lodger" the Doctor uncovers an alien time-distortion device similar to the TARDIS in the upstairs flat of a British apartment building.
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Chekhov's Gun: The Union Jack draped over the side of the apartment building ends up saving Moses when he blows up his flat.
Source: Film / Attack the Block - That key has six flats, from which the title creates a pun with the "apartment building" definition of "flat".
Source: Pun Based Title / Music
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