Apartment vs. Suite

Apartmentnoun

A complete domicile occupying only part of a building.

Apartmentnoun

(archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.

Apartmentnoun

(obsolete) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment

Apartmentnoun

A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy.

Apartmentnoun

A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions.

Apartmentnoun

A set or suite of rooms.

Apartmentnoun

A compartment.

Apartmentnoun

A room or suite of rooms in a building comprising a dwelling unit separate from others in the building, and typically having its own separate bath, sanitary, and kitchen facilities. Such apartments are in most cases rented from the owner by those dwelling in them.

Apartmentnoun

a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

Apartmentnoun

a flat, typically one that is well appointed or used for holidays

Apartmentnoun

a suite of rooms forming one residence; a flat

Apartmentnoun

a block of apartments

Apartmentnoun

a set of private rooms in a very large house

Apartment

An apartment (American English), or flat (British English, Indian English, South African English), is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building, generally on a single story. There are many names for these overall buildings, see below.

Suitenoun

A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage

Suitenoun

A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together

Suitenoun

A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access.

Suitenoun

(music) A musical form, popular before the time of the sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude.

Suitenoun

(music) An excerpt of instrumental music from a larger work that contains other elements besides the music; for example, the Nutcracker Suite is the music (but not the dancing) from the ballet The Nutcracker, and the Carmen Suite is the instrumental music (but not the singing and dancing) from the opera Carmen.

Suitenoun

(computing) A group of related computer programs distributed together.

Suitenoun

A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador. See Suit, n., 5.

Suitenoun

A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or clessed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals. See Suit, n., 6.

Suitenoun

One of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some composers of the present day affect the suite form.

Suitenoun

a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected

Suitenoun

apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)

Suitenoun

the group following and attending to some important person

Suitenoun

a matching set of furniture

Suitenoun

a set of rooms designated for one person's or family's use or for a particular purpose

Suitenoun

a set of coordinating furniture

Suitenoun

a set of instrumental compositions, originally in dance style, to be played in succession.

Suitenoun

a set of selected pieces from an opera or musical, arranged to be played as one instrumental work.

Suitenoun

a group of people in attendance on a monarch or other person of high rank

Suitenoun

a set of programs with a uniform design and the ability to share data.

Suitenoun

a group of minerals, rocks, or fossils occurring together and characteristic of a location or period