- railroad apartment ［flat］
- （両端の部屋にしか窓のない）直線的な間取りの安アパート．
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railroad apartment ［flat］
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Railroad apartment — A railroad apartment, or railroad flat, is an apartment with a series of rooms connecting to each other in a line. [Cassidy, Frances Gomes. Dictionary of American Regional English. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985. ISBN… … Wikipedia
railroad apartment — noun see railroad flat … Useful english dictionary
flat — [adj1] level, smooth collapsed, complanate, decumbent, deflated, depressed, empty, even, extended, fallen, flush, horizontal, laid low, low, oblate, outstretched, pancake*, planar, planate, plane, procumbent, prone, prostrate, punctured,… … New thesaurus
railroad flat — noun an apartment whose rooms are all in a line with doors between them • Hypernyms: ↑apartment, ↑flat * * * noun or railroad apartment : an apartment in a substandard building having a series of narrow rooms arranged in line usually with each… … Useful english dictionary
railroad flat — an apartment whose series of narrow rooms forms a more or less straight line. Also called railroad apartment. [1925 30] * * * … Universalium
Flat — Flat, n. 1. A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats. [1913 Webster] Envy is as the sunbeams that… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
railroad flat — ☆ railroad flat n. an apartment of rooms in a line, entered one from another, with no hallway … English World dictionary
flat — Synonyms and related words: 3 D, Pullman, Pullman car, abeyant, absolute, absolutely, absonant, accented, accidental, accommodation, accordant, accumbent, achromatic, achromic, act drop, admitting no exception, alabaster, alike, alkali flat, all… … Moby Thesaurus
apartment — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. flat, suite, rooms, maisonette, tenement, walk up; condo[minium], co op. See abode, receptacle. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. rooms, quarters, flat, suite, cooperative apartment, condominium apartment,… … English dictionary for students
railroad flat — rail′road flat n. an apartment whose series of narrow rooms forms a more or less straight line. Also called rail′road apart ment … From formal English to slang
railroad flat — noun Date: 1947 an apartment having a series of narrow rooms arranged in line … New Collegiate Dictionary
