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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Meanwhile, Russian air defenses intercepted four Ukrainian drones over Moscow, with one damaging an apartment building near the Kremlin. Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025 Also Thursday, an Israeli airstrike struck an apartment building in a suburb of the capital, wounding three people, one of them critically, Syria's state media and a paramedic group said. arkansasonline.com, 14 Mar. 2025 The backdrop: Three others have already pleaded guilty to running the brothel network that shuttled women between luxury apartment buildings in Cambridge, Watertown, and the suburbs of Washington, D.C. before federal officers shut the ring down in 2023. Mike Deehan, Axios, 14 Mar. 2025 On Thursday night, about 100 people gathered outside the low-slung brick apartment building in the Edgewater community where Jayden lived with his mom and brother. Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for apartment building

Word History

First Known Use

1845, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of apartment building was in 1845

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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment%20building. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.

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apartment building

noun
: a building containing several individual apartments

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