noun · neutral
apartment
UK/əˈpɑːtmənt/US/əˈpɑːrtmənt/a·PART·ment
Band 4-5speakingtask1task2
a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a building
Examples
“I rent a small apartment near my university.”
“The apartment has two bedrooms and a balcony.”
“She bought an apartment in a new block last year.”
Band 8 sentence
“After graduating I moved into a modest apartment close to the city centre to save on commuting time.”
Collocations
- rent an apartment
- buy an apartment
- apartment building
Word family
apartment nounapartmental adjective
Common mistakes
I live in apartment.→I live in an apartment.
I have a flat (meaning same as apartment) but use British word randomly.→I live in an apartment.
Say it for a higher band
5room→6flat→7+apartment
Synonyms
flat
unit
Easily confused
flat
“They rented a cosy flat near the river.”
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