Apartment

a-pärt′ment, n. a separate room in a house occupied by a particular person or party: ( arch. ) a suite or set of such rooms—now in this sense the pl. : ( obs. ) a compartment.— adj. Apartment′al . [Fr. appartement , a suite of rooms forming a complete dwelling, through Low L., from L. ad , and partīre , to divide— pars , a part.]