garden apartment

noun

plural garden apartments
: a multiple-unit low-rise dwelling having considerable lawn or garden space
… a courtyard lined with … two-story garden apartmentsDaisann McLane
… a three-story garden apartment building …US Official News
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Examples of garden apartment in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This is the developer’s first project in Haltom City Alpine Fossil Creek will feature garden apartments with one two and three bedroom floor plans, according to a news release. Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 May 2024 Gosha said during an interview on the front steps of her modest garden apartment in Chicago. Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2024 The bakery has deep roots in the low-income neighborhood of small single-family homes and garden apartments, many of them with security doors. Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Jan. 2024 Some of the places delisted this week are likely airless little boxes worth way less than whatever tourists were paying to sleep there, but my most recent search still turned up brownstones with original moldings and garden apartments with backyard access and laundry in the building. Curbed, 11 Sep. 2023 See all Example Sentences for garden apartment 

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Word History

First Known Use

1913, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of garden apartment was in 1913

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“Garden apartment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garden%20apartment. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.

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