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

A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.

Any natural recess analogous to an alcove or recess in an apartment. The youthful wanderers found a wild alcove. Falconer.

The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house.

A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.

The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room.

A building or an apartment where a library, periodicals, and newspapers are kept for use.

Originally, the place of a king; but afterward, an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose.

A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing. Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence. Gwilt.

A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in. Shak. Lords of the bedchamber, eight officers of the royal household, all of noble families, who wait in turn a week each. [Eng.] -- Ladies of the bedchamber, eight ladies, all titled, holding a similar official position in the royal household, during the reign of a q…

A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.

Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment. [Scot.]

Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment. Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower. Gascoigne.

A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck.

The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room. [Scot.]

An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept. All that need a cool and fresh temper, as cellars, pantries, and butteries, to the north. Sir H. Wotton.

A private room or apartment. "Stand in some by-room" Shak.

A small room, or retired apartment; a closet.

An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room.

A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit. The heroic confessor in his cell. Macaulay.