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apartment building
noun
: a building containing separate residential apartments
called also apartment house
Examples of apartment building in a Sentence
We lived in an apartment building for several years before buying a house.
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That’s kind of what happens at the end of this movie: the characters finally get to this house and have these great emotional expectations that are just met by a typical-looking three-story apartment building.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
From the outside, the restaurant looks like an extension of the apartment building above it.
—Linnea Covington, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
The organization also provides housing through its 12-unit apartment building in Queens, New York.
—Eva Reign, Them, 24 Oct. 2024
The Sixers nixed plans to build a 25-story apartment building as part of their arena proposal.
—Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 23 Oct. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1845, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of apartment building was
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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment%20building. Accessed 12 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
apartment building
noun
: a building containing several individual apartments
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