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

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

Driving past garden apartment complexes and rows of townhomes, she pointed to hidden pockets of density.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2023

In 1975, Norman and Marna Cary lived on the bottom floor of a Hyattsville, Md., garden apartment building that backed onto woods near the Northwest Branch of the Anacostia River.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2021

And no thought is given to perhaps building a small garden apartment for Alice, where she can live with Sam the butcher, rather than inhabiting a tiny cell off the foyer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2019

His father sold the house and they moved to a garden apartment where no memories lurked around corners.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier