apartment house

Definition of apartment housenext

Example Sentences

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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
  • Water started pouring out of the ceiling of an Auburn Gresham apartment building during the afternoon after a pipe erupted.
    Marissa Sulek, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Mindan Ocon lives in an apartment building less than a block away from Portland’s ICE facility, a site of frequent protests, where all kinds of chemical irritants of various colors have been deployed.
    Graham Hurley, CNN Money, 20 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 23 Jan. 2026.

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