garden flat: meaning, definition, pronunciation and examples

Typically, yes. It is most commonly a ground-floor or lower-ground (basement) flat with direct access to a garden. The key feature is the access, not necessarily the floor level, though it is almost always at the lowest level of the building.

Yes. The garden can be for the exclusive use of that flat's occupants or be a shared/communal garden, though exclusive use is a more desirable and common feature in marketing.

"Garden apartment" is the closest direct equivalent, though the term can also describe a style of low-rise apartment complex. Americans might also simply say "a first-floor apartment with a patio/garden" or "a garden-level apartment."

No, it does not imply size. It only specifies the feature of garden access. Garden flats can range from studio apartments to large, multi-bedroom dwellings.

A residential flat (apartment), typically at the ground floor or basement level of a house, with its own private or shared access to a garden.

Garden flat is usually informal, formal (real estate/property listings), chiefly british and commonwealth english. in register.

Garden flat: in British English it is pronounced /ˈɡɑːd(ə)n flæt/, and in American English it is pronounced /ˈɡɑːrd(ə)n flæt/. Tap the audio buttons above to hear it.