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accessory apartment

American  

noun

  1. a self-contained living area within a single-family home, as for an aging parent.


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Hodgens said a father and his six children were inside the second-story apartment just before 2 p.m. when the fire occurred.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2023

The site he listed was an unlikely place for anyone to feed children en masse: The address was a second-story apartment.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2022

They got to Pearce and Osborn’s second-story apartment on Olympic Boulevard at 5:11 a.m.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2022

A pair of sisters, 2 and 3 years old, ran to their second-story apartment window to see what they thought were firecrackers, like a few days earlier on the Fourth of July.

From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2019

Garrison roomed in Forty-fourth Street, where he occupied a small, second-story apartment.

From A Husband by Proxy by Steele, Jack

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