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

Winning the district has traditionally meant pandering to some of the city’s most vocal NIMBYs, who have slowed or stopped the construction of homeless shelters, apartment buildings, and transit projects. — Alissa Walker, Curbed, 6 Nov. 2026

Russia denies deliberately targeting civilians, despite strikes regularly hitting apartment buildings and other civilian infrastructure. — CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026

The group is also calling for dumpsters at all apartment buildings and businesses, as well as more reliable bulky-item pickup. — Hanna Kang, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026

Railway stations, apartment buildings and local markets have also been struck. — Tom Jurkowsky, Baltimore Sun, 2 Nov. 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