apartment house
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of apartment house
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
Example Sentences
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“The seasoned families will never live on apartment house terms, like larvae in a honeycomb,” wrote the muckraking journalist Will Irwin in 1927.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
He would die tragically of a heart attack while swimming in an apartment house pool in Bullhead, Arizona, in 2008 at the age of 52.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
The 1960s stucco apartment house in Santa Monica had an overhanging red roof and wide, wooden balconies, something like a cross between a bungalow motel and a Japanese minka.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2023
Others might occupy a single room in what was once a large middle-class home and was now an apartment house occupied by numerous families.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
“I’ve just come to live in the apartment house next door, with my grandmother. I used to live in Hollywood with my mother.”
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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