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garden apartment

garden apartment noun: a detached mother-in-law apartment or cottage on the same parcel as the main house.

Noun

garden apartment (plural garden apartments)

  1. A detached mother-in-law apartment or cottage on the same parcel as the main house.
  2. One of a set of low-rise apartment buildings built among landscaped grounds and often arranged around courtyards that are open at one end.
    • a garden apartment complex
  3. An urban apartment in a multistory building located at or below ground level.
    • "Because you're in the basement living in a garden apartment, when people are moving around upstairs, you can hear it. You wake up, look around, and realize it's someone above you," he said.2003 August 15, Chuck Green, “Tenants are high on garden apartments”, in Chicago Tribune

Synonyms of garden apartment

Forms of garden apartment

pluralgarden apartments

Origin of garden apartment

So called since this form of housing is usually a cottage built in a home's back yard garden area.

Questions about garden apartment

What does garden apartment mean?
Garden apartment means a detached mother-in-law apartment or cottage on the same parcel as the main house.
What part of speech is garden apartment?
Garden apartment is a noun.
What is the plural of garden apartment?
The plural of garden apartment is garden apartments.

Words near garden apartment in the dictionary

  1. Gardella
  2. Gardellas
  3. garden
  4. Garden Acres
  5. garden angelica
  6. garden apartment
  7. garden apartments
  8. garden balsam
  9. garden boy
  10. garden boys
  11. garden burger

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