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

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garden apartment

Richard Neutra imagined his first Los Angeles project, the Jardinette Apartments in Hollywood, as a prototype for future garden apartment buildings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

There was little inventory available to buy, so I moved into a garden apartment with a month-to-month lease until conditions improved.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

The deaths occurred in the Camden Fair Lakes apartment complex just off Monument Drive, a collection of three- and four-story garden apartment buildings.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 7, 2022

When Ms. Perry and her husband, Matt Duckor, moved to a garden apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, they started seeing some “crazy behavior in the trash bins,” she said.

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2017

But in the end Janis found a place for them, a garden apartment nearby.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen