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

On the sidewalk in front of her family apartment building in the Leopoldstadt neighborhood, the families of her adult grandchildren have placed a Stone of Remembrance, a brass plaque providing her lifespan and site of death. — David Pollak, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026

That March, Tahmasbi noticed strangers loitering around his apartment building. — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026

Matt Martin, 47th, would allow one interior exit stairs in new apartment buildings up to five stories and no more than four units per floor, while ensuring that every building has sprinklers, short travel distances, fire alarms and smoke detection. — Adam Drakulic, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026

The death of a woman whose body was found inside her Bronx apartment building with injuries to her head and torso has been deemed a homicide, police said Saturday. — Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 23 Aug. 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