duplex apartment
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- noun
- /ˈduːplɛks əˈpɑːrtmənt/
- US
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apartamento dúplex
- Then finally moving into a duplex apartment with five friends and two dogs.
- duplex apartment overlooking Central Park
- duplex apartment on Park Avenue
Examples
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We've put two months of hard work into our new duplex apartment to make it a wonderful place to live, only to realize that we have the kind of downstairs neighbors who send out angry (not so) passive-aggressive notes.
Blog text (6) -
Harry had lots of money, and we moved to a big duplex apartment on the corner of Park and Seventy-ninth Street.
Fiction book (1991) -
I am currently living in a duplex apartment in Oakland, California.
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In New York City, she owns a 14-room duplex apartment overlooking Central Park.
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When I visited, her brother Kerwin had stopped by before heading off to work, and they were seated in the narrow living room of her small duplex apartment.
Synonyms
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A building divided into two separate homes, often one above the other
Antonyms
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'duplex' (two floors/units) modifies 'apartment' to indicate an apartment spanning two levels connected internally. This adjective-noun pattern is standard and cross-linguistically common, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Duplex apartment comes from the word duplex, which means 'double'. Picture two floors stacked and joined by an inside staircase, like a small house inside one apartment. That's why it means an apartment with rooms on two levels.