apartment house

Definition of apartment housenext

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Recent Examples of apartment house Completed in 1910, the 15-story apartment house includes a doorman, live-in superintendent, and rooftop terrace. Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2025 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
  • Two people died, and a firefighter was injured after a fire broke out at a Crown Heights apartment building in Brooklyn.
    Elijah Westbrook, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • On the night of April 18, 2022, Fahim gained entry to the Angel Stadium-adjacent apartment building where Cuomo lived with his friend and fellow Chapman University graduate, Jonathan Andrew Bahm.
    Sean Emery, Oc Register, 14 Apr. 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 21 Apr. 2026.

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