Apartment: Difference between revisions

The term ''apartment'' is favoured in North America (although in some Canadian cities, ''flat'' is used for a unit which is part of a house containing two or three units, typically one to a floor<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lexico.com/definition/apartment|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022203609/https://www.lexico.com/definition/apartment|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 October 2020|title=Apartment {{!}} Meaning of Apartment by Lexico|website=Lexico Dictionaries {{!}} English|language=en|access-date=2020-01-22}}</ref>), and Ireland. In the UK, the term ''apartment'' is more usual in professional [[real estate]] and [[architectural]] circles where otherwise the term ''flat'' is used commonly, but not exclusively, for an apartment on a single level (hence a "flat" apartment).