apartment building

Noun

Meaning

a building that is divided into apartments

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

apartment house tenement block of flats house building scene block flat apartment Sahara subdivision slum high-rise skyscraper condominium
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Antonyms

manor mansion brownstone chalet townhouse detached house
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Hypernyms

building edifice

Hyponyms

tenement walk-up tenement house

Examples

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building. Tom Morello

I live in a Victorian apartment building in London. Rem Koolhaas

We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building. Dick York

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course. Sue Grafton

I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place. Ben Katchor

I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez, I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation', so I was about 13 or 14. Johnny Galecki

Close letter words and terms

apartment apartment block apartment blocks apartment complex apartment double apartment foliage