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apartment houses

apartment houses is the plural of apartment house.

Meaning of apartment house

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]

Questions about apartment houses

What is apartment houses the plural of?
Apartment houses is the plural of apartment house.

Words near apartment houses in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: apartment houses (page history and authors); apartment house (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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