apartment house

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apartment house

noun apartment houses

  1. broadly Synonym of apartment building: any building comprising apartments. Heritage House is a ten-story apartment house for seniors in the heart of downtown.

    Similar: apartment building

  2. 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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@misc{apartment_house_2026,
  title = {apartment house},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/apartment%20house},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}