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apartment house

noun

Definitions

  1. Synonym of apartment building

    Synonym of apartment building: any building comprising apartments.

    • Heritage House is a ten-story apartment house for seniors in the heart of downtown.

  2. A house comparable in size to a single-family house but comprising several apartments

    A house comparable in size to a single-family house but comprising several apartments; typically not more than two or three stories tall and containing a single-digit number of apartments (such as two to six).

    • Armitage House is a stately old home on Main Street; it was built in the 1910s as the private home of a local factory owner, and years later it was converted into a trendy apartment house. [tour bus banter]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA