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

Russia has launched several attacks against Ukraine in the last two weeks, including a deadly attack on an apartment building in Zaporizhzhia that killed 20 people, including three children, according to Ukrainian officials. — ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026

The Ukrainian capital endured a noisy night as 21 ballistic missiles came in three waves, Zelenskyy said, smashing apartment buildings, energy facilities, a railway station and the Kyiv subway system, shopping malls and businesses. — Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026

What was once a 193-room hotel became an apartment building with 122 units, bringing new residents to the downtown area. — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2026

Nonetheless, Ukrainian reports suggest that 2,500 to 3,000 of Kyiv’s 12,000 apartment buildings could enter winter without an alternative heat supply. — Tatiana Mitrova, Foreign Affairs, 23 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