maisonette
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- noun
- /ˌmeɪzəˈnɛt/
- UK
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maisonette
- After moving to the city, she found a charming maisonette with a private entrance on the corner of a quiet street.
We lived in a, a maisonette block of Maisonets and Dad was home.
- We lived in a, a maisonette block of Maisonets and Dad was home.
Examples
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In 2010, a Bishan sky terrace maisonette was sold for $900,000, one of the highest prices for HDB flats.
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The maisonette was cold, had been cold; it was cold all over London in this winter where every pain was shaped and clear and made of purest ice.
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Many maisonettes in Bishan have an interesting feature: they have sky terraces, which are extremely rare in Singapore.
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A well-designed and well-built loft conversion can add considerable living space to any home, even flats and maisonettes.
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A 5-room unit would be about $110,000-$230,000 and would be 115-125 square meters, and an executive maisonette would be about $140,000-$280,000 and would be 140-145 square meters.
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The new maisonette offers modern amenities and a lovely small garden, making it perfect for families.
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They decided to renovate the old maisonette they bought, transforming it into a stylish home with its own entrance.
Synonyms
A small home on two floors with its own entrance often inside a larger building
A very small place to live with one or two rooms for one person
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Morphology
maisonette = maison + ette
The suffix '-ette' is a productive English diminutive (indicating a smaller version), but the root 'maison' is French and not a standalone English word, so the meaning is only partly guessable for an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Maisonette comes from the French word maison, meaning 'house', plus the small ending -ette, meaning 'small', like in kitchenette. So a maisonette is a 'little house', which is why it means a small apartment that often has its own entrance.