apartment building

noun

: a building containing separate residential apartments

called also apartment house

Example Sentences

We lived in an apartment building for several years before buying a house.

Recent Examples on the Web

While an onslaught of inanimate objects — from a maniacal swivel chair to her apartment building's elevator — have plagued The View cohost Joy Behar's stateside peace, an Italian woman recently took the ongoing war against the 80-year-old to international territory. —Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2023

The mother of Flo Rida‘s six-year-old son has filed a lawsuit against the owners of a rental property after Zohar P. Dillard was seriously injured in a March 4 fall from a fifth-floor window of her New Jersey apartment building. —Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Mar. 2023

Developers could raze the mall entirely and convert it to an apartment building, medical offices or an e-commerce warehouse. —Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023

Hotel Suites at the Touraine The Touraine is actually a historical landmark apartment building, and prospective residents jostle for the opportunity to move in permanently any time there is an opening. —Kaye Toal, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2023

In Bilopillia in the Sumy region, a Russian strike damaged a school building and an apartment building. —Hanna Arhirova, ajc, 29 Mar. 2023

In addition to the vehicles, the fire destroyed the carport and caused minor damage to the front of a nearby apartment building. —Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2023

After a suspicious death takes place inside their exclusive Upper West Side apartment building, the trio sets out with their precise knowledge of true crime on a hunt to find the killer and ultimately unravel the truth. —Breanna Bell, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023

Friends who already live in the same city could decide to move within walking distance of one another—the same neighborhood, block, or even apartment building—and campaign for others to do the same. —Adrienne Matei, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1845, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

apartment building

noun

: a building containing several individual apartments