apartment house

Definition of apartment housenext

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Recent Examples of apartment house Completed in 1910, the 15-story apartment house includes a doorman, live-in superintendent, and rooftop terrace. Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2025 Investigators said Kaylee Goncalves, 21, was fatally stabbed on the third floor of the apartment house in the same room with another victim, Madison Mogen, 21. Erik Ortiz, NBC news, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apartment house
Noun
  • Stone House is a six-story, 161-unit apartment building developed by Win, formerly known as Women in Need, with 96 units reserved for homeless families.
    Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Firefighters responded to a report of a blaze at a large apartment building on Fairmont Avenue and found fire in a first-floor unit, according to Dan Coughlin, chief of the New Haven Fire Department.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Shells from the tavern in the basement of Gladstone’s Land, a tenement house in the Scottish capital, filled in gaps in the building’s brickwork.
    Garritt C. Van Dyk, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025
  • The Tenement Museum comprises two preserved tenement houses on the Lower East Side.
    Devorah Lev-Tov, AFAR Media, 27 May 2025

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“Apartment house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apartment%20house. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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