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.
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Officers later found evidence that a shooting likely occurred inside an apartment building on 37th Street, Becchina said. Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 7 June 2025 Ukrainian drones also targeted three other regions of Russia, authorities said, damaging apartment buildings and industrial plants. Arkansas Online, 7 June 2025 Several residents of an apartment building were displaced after a fire broke out Thursday morning at a building in the Little Village neighborhood, Chicago police said. Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025 Police said the department’s Special Services Division launched a narcotics investigation in January that focused on the area of 265 Wilson Ave., an apartment building. Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 3 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for apartment building

Word History

First Known Use

1845, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of apartment building was in 1845

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“Apartment building.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apartment%20building. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.

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apartment building

noun
: a building containing several individual apartments

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