apartment house

noun

1. a building containing a number of residential apartments.

Word History and Origins

Origin of apartment house¹

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

Example Sentences

Another could have hit the Israeli parliament or a high-rise apartment house, causing massive casualties.

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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.

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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.

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But last year’s deaths at a Chicago apartment house shows more is needed.

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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.

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