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

The victim, whose name and age have not been released, was assaulted in a communal bathroom of an apartment building in the 1900 block of Pico Boulevard, police and news accounts said. — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026

The Rendezvous is at the very (dead) end of Page Mill Road, on the ground floor of an apartment building. — Laura Ness, Mercury News, 26 July 2026

The City Council on Thursday approved an ordinance that directs City Manager Mario Vasquez to address issues at the apartment buildings in the 100 block of North Lawn Avenue. — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 25 July 2026

The quick-thinking worker tailed Morales to the suspect’s NYCHA apartment building on Amsterdam Ave. — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 25 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