Definitions
GNU Webster's 1913
- A building comprising a number of lving units (apartments{4}) designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; contrasted to a detached dwelling. Sometimes distinguished in the United States from a
flat house , in which each living unit comprises one entire floor, whereas in an apartment house a floor may be partitioned into any number of apartments{4}.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a building that is divided into apartments
Examples
“Milena led them another quarter mile away from the center of town to an apartment house on the other side of the same street.”
“He had walked along the banks of the Seine, and paused forty yards upstream from the Bir-Hakeim bridge, at the spot where the gun had been thrown in and fished out of the river, then he set off in the direction of the big new apartment house in Boulevard de Grenelle.”
“The old red-brick Pontalba was celebrated for its ornate wrought-iron balconies and the fact that it was the oldest apartment house in North America.”
“The one at the top of the next page I took from where Rube and I stood; the building you see there is pale yellow brick handsomely trimmed in chocolate-colored stone, and as one of my later shots shows, each of its eight stories is just twice as high as the stories of the modern apartment house beside it.”
“Dudley went by your apartment house and talked to the manager, and when you get home tonight you’ll find T. Krugman on your mailbox.”
“The CSIs in their Tahoe followed Detective Erin Conroy in her Taurus through typically bustling Vegas wee-hours traffic to the three-story motel-like apartment house where Tera Jameson and Jenna Patrick had once lived.”
“Stuey was then living at the Jockey Club, an eleven-story luxury apartment house right next to the Dunes, but he gave Madeline money to buy a condo—“I think it was about $32,000,” she said—and she purchased a little place on Paradise off Harmon.”
“The following Tuesday morning, Sara arrived at the apartment house at noon and waited in the utility closet for Two-Ton Tony’s arrival.”
“I pulled over in front of a tan brick apartment house across from Kalorama Park.”
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