Apartment vs Attic - What's the difference?
apartment | attic |
A complete domicile occupying only part of a building.
(archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.
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(obsolete) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment
* 1883 April 23, Slawson ''v.'' Grand Street R. Co. , 107 U.S. 649, 2 S.Ct. 663, 664,
As a noun apartment
is apartment.As an adjective attic is
relating to athenian culture or architecture.As a proper noun attic is
an ancient greek dialect spoken in attica, euboea, and the northern coastal regions of the aegean sea.apartment
English
(wikipedia apartment)Noun
(en noun)- apartment dwellers
- By this contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined. There I saw the empress and the young princes in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.
- The specification described the ordinary fare-box used in street cars and omnibuses, consisting of two apartments', the one directly above the other.... [T]he passenger deposited his fare in an aperture in the top of the upper '''apartment'''. It fell upon and was arrested by a movable platform.... This platform turned on an axis acted on by a lever. When turned, the fare fell into the lower ' apartment , which was a receptacle for holding the fares accumulated....
