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flat (2)
flat [ flat ] (plural flats)


noun 
Definition:
 
U.K. 
Same as  apartment (sense 1)

[Early 19th century. Alteration, after flat1, of Scots flet "interior of a house" < Old English flet(t) "house, floor" < Germanic]
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