fourplex

[fawr-pleks, fohr-]

noun

Architecture.

1. quadplex.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fourplex¹

1970–75; four + -plex, abstracted from duplex ( apartment ), in place of quadruplex

Example Sentences

When a couple found their dream apartment in Beachwood Canyon, they discovered a community of dog lovers outside their fourplex.

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Today, however, the couple says they are most impressed by the sense of belonging they have found in the community just outside their 1928 Spanish fourplex.

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“My initial reaction was, ‘I want this,’ ” Weiss said of the fourplex.

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Several years ago, investors bought the Koreatown fourplex where Mary Carmen Martinez had lived for nearly two decades and tried to push the tenants out.

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In Los Angeles, screenshots show the owner of a fourplex in Silver Lake told a tester that Section 8 wasn’t a possibility.

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