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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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For example, apartment buildings have a depreciation timeline of 27.5 years.
—Brian Spear, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Gareth Evan’s Indonesian martial arts movie was set entirely within the confines of an apartment building and had an intense physicality to its incessant fight scenes like nothing else out there.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 19 Nov. 2024
During that time, the Denverite has watched townhouses and apartment buildings pop up in the area.
—Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
Welsh was 21 and entering her senior year at the university, when she was found dead Aug. 30 at an off-campus apartment building, police said.
—Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 8 Nov. 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
in 1845
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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment%20building. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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apartment building
noun
: a building containing several individual apartments
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