studio apartment

noun

1. an apartment consisting of one main room, a kitchen or kitchenette, and a bathroom. Compare efficiency apartment.
2. (formerly) a one-room apartment having a high ceiling and large windows.

Word History and Origins

Origin of studio apartment¹

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

A machine for a larger house that requires more frequent cleaning won’t have as long a lifespan as a vacuum that’s used in the studio apartment of someone who lives alone.

From Popular-Science

Whether you’re in a home or a studio apartment, there are plenty of ways to maximize space, albeit a living room, basement, or even a kitchen, if need be.

From Essence.com

For example, it says it can 3D print a 350-square-foot studio apartment in just 24 hours.

From TechCrunch

I’ve been dutifully isolated in my studio apartment since March.

From Outside Online

You don’t realize how much that person has influenced your life until you are not in it and to not have someone here — in a studio apartment.

From Washington Post

Rawashda is holding his laptop as he points out every nook and cranny of his studio apartment.

From The Daily Beast

The three sat in the studio apartment occupied by Blair and Thorpe, who had just returned from dining at their club.

From Project Gutenberg

At the top of the frowning heights the studio apartment of Miss Gloria Greene would open to her.

From Project Gutenberg

She had a studio apartment, and was properly chaperoned by a little widow who went with her and shared her rooms.

From Project Gutenberg

They took a studio apartment and set up their crafts jointly.

From Project Gutenberg

It was partly on his account, you know, that we left our studio apartment and moved out in the forty-five minutes commutin' zone.

From Project Gutenberg