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

From that point, the play settles in as a real-time chamber piece set against David Israel Reynoso’s grimy garden apartment set, complete with poorly plastered walls and broken blinds.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2022

So we took our coffees to the garden apartment across the street that had been provided to Dreher.

From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2021

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

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen