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

According to the article, during this period Israeli war planes deliberately targeted civilian structures such as office towers, apartment buildings, government ministries, utility companies, banks, and universities. — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 20 July 2026

Conceptual plans showed a series of four-story apartment buildings clustered at one end of the property. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026

She was found unconscious and unresponsive at an apartment building and later pronounced dead on the scene when EMS officials arrived, the New York Police Department previously confirmed. — Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 17 July 2026

Thanks to Local Law 154, every NYC resident in new apartment buildings will be free from costly and unhealthy gas heating and appliances. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 17 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