apartment house

Other forms: apartment houses

Definitions of apartment house
  1. noun
    a building that is divided into apartments
    synonyms: apartment building
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    types:
    tenement, tenement house
    a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
    walk-up
    an apartment building without an elevator
    type of:
    building, edifice
    a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
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