Flat Block Live Flæt Renting Furnished Floor Ground Floor

• do you live in a flat or a house?
• they're renting a furnished flat on the third floor.
• a ground-floor flat
• a new block of flats

flat

1. a set of rooms for living in, including a kitchen, usually on one floor of a building
• compare apartment
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/apartment
• Do you live in a flat or a house?
• They're renting a furnished flat on the third floor.
• a ground-floor flat
• a new block of flats
• Many large old houses have been converted into flats.
• Children from the flats (= the block of flats) across the street were playing outside.
2. the flat level part of something
• He beat on the door with the flat of his hand.
• the flat of a sword
3. an area of low flat land, especially near water
• see also mudflat
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/mudflat
• salt flats
4. the season for racing horses on flat ground with no jumps
5. a note played a semitone / half step lower than the note that is named. The written symbol is (♭).
• opposite sharp
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/sharp_3
• There are no sharps or flats in the key of C major.
6. a tyre that has lost air, usually because of a hole
• We got a flat on the way home.
• We had to stop to fix a flat.
7. a vertical section of scenery used on a theatre stage
8. shoes with a very low heel
• See related entries: Footwear
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/footwear/flat_5
• a pair of flats
9. on level ground, without hills or jumps (= for example in horse racing)
• Overtaking the next cyclist on an Alpine climb is a dozen times harder than on the flat.

Extra Examples

• Do you think that the council could find me another flat?
• Even the prices of small bachelor flats are unbelievable.
• I’ll meet you back at your flat.
• Mendelssohn’s Quintet in B flat
• Our flat is one of the two occupied in the block.
• She let herself into the flat with the spare key.
• She lives in the top flat.
• The flat is located in a modern development.
• The house has now been converted into flats.
• The key of E flat major has three flats.
• The landlady found they had been illegally subletting the flat.
• The musician rented a flat in a fashionable area of London.
• The tall blocks of flats dominated the skyline.
• These birds live on the coastal flats.
• They converted two rooms of their house into a granny flat for Tony’s elderly mother.
• They have a flat in Paris and a house in Normandy.
• They live in the next flat.
• We got her a flat in the same block as ours.
• a block of high-rise flats
• a contract to refurbish 18 council flats
• a luxury block of flats overlooking the marina
• mud and sand flats rich in animal life
• the people who live in the downstairs flat
• Children from the flats across the street were playing outside.
• The landlord agreed to let a ground-floor flat to me.
• They’re renting a furnished flat on the third floor.
• They’ve just started building a new block of flats near my mum’s house.

Word Origin

• noun senses 2 to 8 Middle English: from Old Norse flatr. noun sense 1 early 19th cent. (denoting a floor or storey): alteration of obsolete flet ‘floor, dwelling’, of Germanic origin and related to flat ‘level’.