[
UK
/mˌeɪsəʊnˈɛt/
]
NOUN
- a small house
- a self-contained apartment (usually on two floors) in a larger house and with its own entrance from the outside
How To Use maisonette In A Sentence
- It was a two-bedroom maisonette in a complex of smaller flats. Times, Sunday Times
- He wants to save enough money to be able to swap his maisonette for a house in a few years' time. Times, Sunday Times
- Two firefighters, in breathing apparatus, entered the maisonette to find the main lounge room alight.
- David, 48, a university professor, bought the two-bedroom Victorian terraced maisonette as a bachelor pad seven years ago.
- A young mother living in the maisonette next door only had time to grab her two children before fleeing.
- The situation improved when the council cleared unpopular maisonettes and private developers built new homes.
- But despite his marriage and his supposedly settled family life in a council maisonette, he had yet to receive a passport.
- However, residents of flats and maisonettes can also do much to improve the security of their homes.
- When she saw the maisonette in Sowerby Road, Acomb, she was at first appalled by the untidy state it was in.
- Today these historical buildings house a mix of flats, maisonettes and townhouses, and one conversion has just come on the market.
