apartment house

Definition of apartment housenext

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Recent Examples of apartment house Investigators said Kaylee Goncalves, 21, was fatally stabbed on the third floor of the apartment house in the same room with another victim, Madison Mogen, 21. Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apartment house
Noun
  • Dozens of residents were displaced after a fire tore through a Brooklyn Heights apartment building on Monday.
    Naveen Dhaliwal, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Juan Reyes, 49, Enin’s friend and the superintendent of his apartment building, told The News that Enin had recently returned from a vacation in Africa.
    Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Shells from the tavern in the basement of Gladstone’s Land, a tenement house in the Scottish capital, filled in gaps in the building’s brickwork.
    Garritt C. Van Dyk, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025
  • The Tenement Museum comprises two preserved tenement houses on the Lower East Side.
    Devorah Lev-Tov, AFAR Media, 27 May 2025

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“Apartment house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apartment%20house. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.

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