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.

Recent Examples on the Web

In North Carolina, for example, the state used its federal cash to build public chargers in apartment buildings. — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026

Although Breslin’s proposal doesn’t specify the multi-family units as apartments rather than for-purchase condos, the building design is consistent with modern apartment buildings. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 30 Oct. 2026

At least four apartment buildings and about a dozen cars were damaged because of a Russian attack on Shakhtarske on the evening of October 26. — Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 30 Oct. 2026

Several neighboring businesses and apartment buildings were tagged, though McGee said the graffiti was cleaned up. — Jane Horowitz, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1845, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for apartment building

• boatbuilding
• outbuilding
• rebuilding
• roadbuilding
• shipbuilding
• upbuilding
• bodybuilding
• gilding

Kids Definition

apartment building

noun

: a building containing several individual apartments