APARTMENT


Meaning of APARTMENT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a luxury hotel/home/apartment

They stayed at luxury hotels during their trip.

an apartment block

I met him at his apartment block in Manhattan.

an apartment complex American English

a luxury apartment complex on Fulton Street

apartment block

home/hotel/apartment etc

This is a friendly and comfortable hotel.

penthouse apartment/flat/suite

self-catering accommodation/apartment/cottage etc

view a house/an apartment/a property (= go to see a house etc that you are interested in buying )

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

large

Aida's family own a large apartment near the city centre.

Just two weeks ago, he voted to approve a rezoning to allow a paint shop next to a large apartment building.

It was a large studio apartment at the top of a solidly built Edwardian villa tucked behind Regent's Park Road.

This time she took him to a room in a large apartment block set near factories and oil-storage tanks.

It was a large , first-floor apartment which had been furnished as a suitable setting for an up-and-coming superstar.

When Peter was born a few years later, the family was living in a large apartment on Riverside Drive.

new

More modestly, the same agents are offering six new apartments at Kingswear with views across to Dartmouth.

An estimated 12, 000 new apartments are scheduled to be built in 1996, raising the flag about too many apartments.

Finally my father found her a new apartment in a project on the Upper West Side.

She took a trip around the world and then be-came involved in buying a new apartment .

Many former barrio homeowners ended up in the new apartments .

As we drove back to their new apartment he fell asleep across her lap.

We sublet our New York apartment and gave up the one in Philadelphia.

She has a new apartment , a new man, a new life.

private

Lowtherstown Court has 25 private apartments designed to meet the needs of older people.

They had private homes or apartments , country estates, special restaurants and shops.

She didn't hear the murmur until she was standing right outside the door to Luke's private apartment .

A lot of these buildings are co-housing: private apartments with communal kitchens and so on.

There was only one other place he could be: in his private apartments on the third floor.

Half a century before their quest was begun, an inventory was taken of the private apartments in Buckingham Palace.

The family is staying in a private apartment loaned by Fergie's friend, brewing heir Peter Greenall.

There are also small hotels, pensions, private villas and apartments .

small

We have the ability to suit requirements ranging from small apartments from £200 per week to large houses from £2,500 per week.

For 10 days, many small apartment buildings and old wooden houses had no heat.

Vesa had been living in a small apartment in the Mids since their aunt had died a year back.

There was a simplicity about the small apartment that I liked.

He quotes about £30,000 for a small inland farmhouse or ruin needing restoration and about £25,000 for a small apartment .

Then Marc Klaas drives to the small apartment he shares with his parents and sits down to write.

The small apartment on Riverside Drive sounded as though it was already full to overflowing.

Middle-class living standards here far surpass life in Moscow, where many still live dormitory-style in small apartments .

tiny

Maidstone rented a tiny apartment at the top of a very dilapidated building in the Vomero.

Our tiny apartment , it is true, is barely suited for two people, and certainly not for four.

He is sitting in the living room in our tiny apartment in Nigawa.

We have tiny apartments and kids and computers that eat up our spare time and money, for goodness' sakes.

Fannie and Laura share a tiny loft apartment .

This is a tiny little one-bedroom apartment , Bernie.

■ NOUN

block

The joint venture is also planning a hotel and an office building next to the main apartment block .

This time she took him to a room in a large apartment block set near factories and oil-storage tanks.

On the outskirts of Tabor there were long rows of multi-storey apartment blocks of an extraordinary ugliness; many flats looked empty.

Accordingly, he had indeed doubled the surveillance team, detailing two men to each side of the Eldorado apartment block .

Marina's is an old apartment block on Putnik Street.

A quiet street and the beard stood in the shade of an apartment block doorway.

Damian got out, his arm around Domino, and they ran into an apartment block .

Dozens of people were seen leaping from windows in the apartment blocks .

building

The city is subsidizing private property managers to renovate and buy 200 city-owned apartment buildings .

For 10 days, many small apartment buildings and old wooden houses had no heat.

Treacherous relief replaced amusement and was followed by a great surge of pure excitement as she glanced up at their apartment building .

It provides hot water units for apartment buildings and swimming pools.

Television showed the apartment buildings spewing smoke and flames and chaotic scenes of paramedics treating people on the ground.

Mr Roche was a tiny man who lived in a bungalow behind the apartment building .

Check those apartment buildings next door-who owns them?

complex

They encircle many of the city's apartment complexes .

Police Sunday did not reveal whether the suspect they arrested early Sunday at an apartment complex was the man in the photograph.

The plan calls for a three-story, 42-unit apartment complex that would also include retail shops.

Next time, it was a man on foot who circled the fence around the eight-story apartment complex .

Then the townhouses give way to dowdy apartment complexes with grimy windows facing the street.

Next door, contractors Jeannine and Jack Perriseau are re-building another apartment complex that also was destroyed by the quake.

door

Spiked cages surround baroque colonial villas; apartment doors are reinforced and guarded at gunpoint.

The apartment door was already standing open and the hallway smelled of stale smoke.

She had her own key to the front door of the house and the apartment door.

It was a woman who opened the apartment door .

Trent would then look through the apartment door peephole.

I taught Carolyn once, and in a pinch she can open her apartment door without her keys.

And inside my apartment door , even with the two locks to undo.

Sherman passed apartment doors with innumerable locks, one above the other in drunken columns.

house

I bet if you walked into any of those apartment houses or office blocks, you'd find zero.

Seated at a small table in my room, I figured out how I would meet the expenses of our apartment house .

There were now three official cars outside the apartment house .

Across the street a doorman stood under the canopy of an apartment house , smoking a cigarette.

It was Sunday and they had all found rooms in a commercial apartment house .

This genteel neighborhood of tree-lined streets and solid apartment houses used to be the most fashionable address in Lima.

Her apartment house was an imposing Napoleonic block which presented solid, unwelcoming doors to the street.

On this side of the street, where he was walking, was a cliff of elegant apartment houses overlooking the museum.

studio

Twice, Judy had been evicted from her studio apartment for nonpayment of rent.

Vegh was the whole staff, assisted by his answering machine and his MacIntosh computer in his University Heights studio apartment .

It was a large studio apartment at the top of a solidly built Edwardian villa tucked behind Regent's Park Road.

We were cramped in my studio apartment , but the thought of the family being together was reassuring.

Do you know what studio apartments are renting for in this neighborhood?

Without discussing it with her, I found myself a small studio apartment and moved out.

■ VERB

build

The two-year scheme involves converting the 1960s-\#built Royal Mail House building into 324 apartments across 14 storeys.

Sketch phase of the approval process to build 408 apartments on 24.01 acres.

Instead I built my own apartment .

Construction workers use scaffolds today to build multiple-story apartments .

For Charlie Swibel, building the apartment towers was coming a long way from being a flophouse and slum operator.

buy

But now we're thinking of buying an apartment in Bombay because of this business we are starting with Keith and Doreen.

But why would anyone buy their apartment if they now pay only 1 percent of their income for their current apartment?

The city is subsidizing private property managers to renovate and buy 200 city-owned apartment buildings.

Not long ago I met with a group of foreign Service officials who had been ordered to buy their current apartments .

Want to buy underpriced apartments in a glamorous location that has few vacancies and little competition from new construction?

She took a trip around the world and then be-came involved in buying a new apartment .

Spiegel said Elizabeth Dole bought the apartment more than 10 years ago for $ 150, 000.

Everyone was talking about it, exchanging the latest details: who pocketed the money, where they bought the apartments .

find

Landlords were not pleased to find that their apartment blocks had overnight become the property of the tenants.

I have to find an apartment somewhere.

Finally my father found her a new apartment in a project on the Upper West Side.

It was only by the damnedest luck I found his apartment .

If she combed the hotels she could find him, but she could never find him in an apartment .

She just found an apartment in San Jose.

Fran Johnson found her the furnished apartment and helped her settle in.

leave

She was still lying on the carpet five minutes later when he left the apartment .

So I had been able to admire the strategic splendor of leaving me in our apartment .

They'd left Rune's apartment almost immediately after breakfast.

If you left fingerprints in his apartment , well, so what?

He knew it was impossible for the Prophet to have left the apartment .

As I recall, the trouble started Soon after we left the apartment , while we were still on our own stoop.

By the time he left the apartment , it was raining.

It was eighteen degrees Fahrenheit when he left his apartment this morning, it was over ninety when they arrived.

live

Nicolas, 32, and his 31-year-old wife live in a modest apartment and friends say pride stopped them getting in touch with her.

He had lived in this apartment for ten years, most of them with Mariah.

Vanessa Smith and Shantel had been visiting a cousin, who lived in an apartment in back of theirs.

Curtis Seber, who lived in the apartment where the fire began, said he returned to see the building in flames.

Their names would not appear in the lists of people living in the shattered apartment blocks.

Few actually will live in the apartments or homes they are buying.

At this time Luke was living in a two-bedroom apartment on Yokum Drive.

move

Two weeks later, she moved into his Manhattan apartment .

But she soon split with her husband, and she and Nicolae moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Huntington Beach.

Renters who move into a vacated apartment face the rude awakening of the market rate an owner is permitted to charge.

Richard moved back to his apartment .

Perhaps he would move into the apartment .

So I married Jake and moved into an apartment a block away from my parents.

own

Consider what happened to investors in a Los Angeles-based firm that owned a string of apartments and shopping centers across the West.

rent

Yes, they said, her husband had indeed rented the apartment , from March 1985 to September 1989.

In other words, when people rented furnished apartments , they were influenced by the style of the interiors.

Maidstone rented a tiny apartment at the top of a very dilapidated building in the Vomero.

Later, they rented an apartment to other refugees in a building they own.

Alison rented an apartment near the hospital.

Ellie had told me, two weeks after renting her apartment , that soon she would move out of the cabin.

Zborowski had rented an apartment in the Rue Masséna, but Modigliani was restless and unsettled living in a constrained atmosphere.

share

It is the place where the two writers and philosophers shared an apartment .

I share an apartment with two others a student nurse and a sometime artist.

Prices are based on 4 people sharing an apartment .

Most families share their apartment with another family, or two.

She knew a couple of friends elsewhere who lived together under the pretense of sharing an apartment or duplex.

Prices are based on 3 sharing a one bedroomed apartment .

Fannie and Laura share a tiny loft apartment .

stay

Her mind was taken up with puzzling over a fact which had become increasingly clear the longer she stayed in the apartment .

We never did stay in the apartment .

If I stay in my apartment , or if I go home to my house, I am lonely.

Only Mr Bumbieris stayed on in the apartments for years rather than moving to another part of the city.

Whilst working, I stayed in an apartment only 20 minutes' walk from Times Square.

Or you can stay upstairs in your apartment and the same thing will be true.

The family is staying in a private apartment loaned by Fergie's friend, brewing heir Peter Greenall.

He stayed in the new apartment for three days.

walk

And he had seen me walking from my hotel apartment with Dana - Americano, he said disdainfully.

Primo walks into his apartment , and sets the paper and the bottle of wine on the table.

He walked back to his apartment in a downpour, getting drenched in spite of his umbrella.

She was walking toward her apartment building.

He walked into a modern apartment .

Formerly an avid jogger and weight-lifter, Turner leans on a cane to walk around her small apartment on good days.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

next-door apartment/office etc

rented accommodation/housing/apartment etc

Ed, who lives in rented accommodation, plans to use the money as a down-payment on a house.

Many are trapped in the inner cores because of the unavailability of rented housing beyond the cities.

Many potential homeowners decided to sit out the recession in rented accommodation, leaving their money in high-earning accounts.

The group will also recommend improved access to private rented accommodation through rent deposit schemes.

The report points out that the idea of local housing companies as landlord bodies for social rented housing originated in Glasgow.

They remain very vulnerable in privately rented accommodation as they can often be ignorant of their rights.

This would apply to rented accommodation, council houses, etc.

Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a one-bedroom apartment

High-rise apartment buildings have gone up where once there was open land.

Small apartment buildings filled with families line the street.

There was no point in paying rent for an empty apartment .

They went back to her apartment for a cup of coffee.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But she soon split with her husband, and she and Nicolae moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Huntington Beach.

I walked the stretch of road from our apartment to the Mekong Grocery.

Oh, they had a fantastic apartment in New York as well, and two beautiful children.

One night, in the late 70s, a large group of people broke into Zofia's apartment while Bronislaw was away.

Our tiny apartment , it is true, is barely suited for two people, and certainly not for four.

Primo walks into his apartment , and sets the paper and the bottle of wine on the table.

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