apartment house

American  

noun

1. a building containing a number of residential apartments.

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Etymology

Origin of apartment house

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

Example Sentences

“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

He turned into the doorway of an apartment house.

From Literature

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

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

They’d been inspired after reading her book “Growing Pains,” which documented her life making art and running a small apartment house in the early 20th century.

From Los Angeles Times