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sub-apartment

sub-apartment noun: an apartment forming part of a larger apartment.

Noun

sub-apartment (plural sub-apartments)

  1. An apartment forming part of a larger apartment.
    • […] the same crowded conditions in each of the five one-room and my friends' two-room (for five adults) subapartments of the communal apartment.1957, The Reporter, volume 16, page 18
    • The buildings had been converted to small rooms and sub-apartments, one stacked inside another.2010, Grace Krilanovich, The Orange Eats Creeps

Forms of sub-apartment

pluralsub-apartments

Origin of sub-apartment

From sub- + apartment.

Questions about sub-apartment

What does sub-apartment mean?
Sub-apartment means an apartment forming part of a larger apartment.
What part of speech is sub-apartment?
Sub-apartment is a noun.
What is the plural of sub-apartment?
The plural of sub-apartment is sub-apartments.

Words near sub-apartment in the dictionary

  1. sub tenders
  2. sub voce
  3. sub-
  4. sub-admiral
  5. sub-admirals
  6. sub-apartment
  7. sub-apartments
  8. sub-aqueous
  9. sub-atomic
  10. sub-audible
  11. sub-audio frequency

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