garden apartment

American  

noun

1. an apartment on the ground floor of an apartment building having direct access to a backyard or garden.

2. a low-level apartment building or building complex surrounded by lawns and trees, shrubbery, or gardens.

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Etymology

Origin of garden apartment

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

She didn’t feel comfortable going back to her crowded apartment building in New York.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024

A preexisting knee injury limited her ability to walk, and she’d become dehydrated, exacerbating an infection she had developed while sheltering in a crowded apartment building.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2024

I left the kitchen and wandered the crowded apartment, feeling out of sync with the crowd.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2022

But the dream of class mobility dissipates when society locks down, the economy stalls, the death count mounts and everyone’s future is frozen inside their own crowded apartment or palatial mansion.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2020

There’re cracks in the walls, mold, chipping paint—this crowded apartment probably wasn’t good for our health.

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi