flat - apartment

In British English, a flat is a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a large building. You can rent a flat or you can own it yourself.

They rented a furnished flat in Rummidge.

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In American English, a set of rooms like this is usually called an apartment. When it is in a modern building, or when it is owned by the person or people who live there, it is sometimes called a condominium or, in conversation, a condo.

They pay 2,000 thousand dollars a month for their three-bedroomed apartment.

He urged me to buy a condominium.

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In British English, a large building containing flats is called a block of flats. In American English, it is called an apartment house, an apartment building, or an apartment block.

The building was pulled down to make way for a block of flats.

The next night police rushed to an apartment house on Charlesgate East.

Several apartment buildings were destroyed.

Stuart began to count the apartment blocks.

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