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

New York Residential apartment buildings in New York, US, on Wednesday, June 24, 2026. — Scott Cohn, CNBC, 13 July 2026

Downtown safety has remained a major focus since a woman was attacked and stabbed outside her apartment building last month. — Steve Maugeri, CBS News, 13 July 2026

The company is proposing 17 three- and four-story apartment buildings along with 27 duplexes and 19 single-family homes. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2026

As officers were on the way, a relative found the boy unresponsive in a lake behind an apartment building in the area, pulled him from the water and immediately started CPR. — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 10 July 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