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apartment house

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noun

a building containing a number of residential apartments.

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Origin of apartment house

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

Also called apartment building.

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Examples from the Web for apartment house

Was their apartment-house friendship, however polished, worth the simple genuine fellowship I enjoyed among my present neighbors?
One Way Out|William Carleton
In the United States the term “apartment-house” is applied to what in England are called flats.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4|Various
Whether it came from the apartment-house or one of the private dwellings next to it, he was in doubt.
An Artist in Crime|Rodrigues Ottolengui
Now they reached the apartment-house district and slid past block after block of bulky living apartments.
The Secret Wireless|Lewis E. Theiss

The apartment-house, however, soars to heights that the tenement-house never half reached, and is sometimes ten stories high.
Through the Eye of the Needle|William Dean Howells