Word.ws English Dictionary

cold-water flat

cold-water flat is the alternative form of coldwater flat.

Meaning of coldwater flat

Noun

coldwater flat (plural coldwater flats)

  1. (US, dated) A small, very inexpensive apartment having only the most rudimentary features and lacking a plumbing system to supply hot water.
    • In Hoboken, in a coldwater flat ("one can to four families"), Frank was born on Dec. 12, 1915.1955 August 29, “Cinema: The Kid from Hoboken”, in Time, retrieved 27 Sep 2018

Forms of cold-water flat

pluralcold-water flats

Questions about cold-water flat

What is cold-water flat the alternative form of?
Cold-water flat is the alternative form of coldwater flat.

Words near cold-water flat in the dictionary

  1. cold-shouldering
  2. cold-shoulders
  3. cold-shut
  4. cold-shuts
  5. cold-smoked salmon
  6. cold-water flat
  7. coldbeer
  8. coldbeers
  9. coldblood
  10. coldblooded
  11. coldbloodedly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cold-water flat (page history and authors); coldwater flat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cold-water flat.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cold-water_flat. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.