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 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 29 Nov. 2024.

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apartment building

noun
: a building containing several individual apartments

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