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
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
Arquitectonica’s beachfront apartment house, the Babylon, for instance, with its multiple interwoven ziggurat wings, was condemned before it reached age 40.
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2022
Landing on the roof of Henry’s forty-story apartment house in Westminster, they went straight down to the dining- hall.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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