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 Zaporizhzhia, drone strikes killed a 74-year-old man and wounded three people, while a drone damaged an apartment building, wounding seven people, in the Khmelnytskyi region. — Samya Kullab, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2026

Dozens of law enforcement officers were at the apartment building where the shooting occurred Wednesday evening, along with a mobile crime scene unit from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the state investigative agency. — Ellen Schmidt, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said both were believed to have been residents of the apartment building. — James Powel, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026

Most unexpected of all, the exterior shots outside the principal characters’ apartment building were made on West 11th Street. — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 2 Sep. 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