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apartment house

apartment house noun: synonym of apartment building: any building comprising apartments.

Noun

apartment house (plural 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.
  2. (strictly) 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]

Synonyms of apartment house

Forms of apartment house

pluralapartment houses

Questions about apartment house

What does apartment house mean?
Apartment house means synonym of apartment building: any building comprising apartments.
What part of speech is apartment house?
Apartment house is a noun.
What is the plural of apartment house?
The plural of apartment house is apartment houses.

Words near apartment house in the dictionary

  1. apartment buildings
  2. apartment complex
  3. apartment complexes
  4. apartment hotel
  5. apartment hotels
  6. apartment house
  7. apartment houses
  8. apartment sat
  9. apartment sit
  10. apartment sits
  11. apartment sitting

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