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nouna building containing a number of residential apartments. Also called apartment building. Origin of apartment houseAn Americanism dating back to 1870–75 Words nearby apartment houseapart from, apartheid, aparthotel, apartment, apartment hotel, apartment house, apartmentize, Passage to India, A, apast, apastron, apatetic Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for apartment houseWas their apartment-house friendship, however polished, worth the simple genuine fellowship I enjoyed among my present neighbors? One Way Out|William Carleton In the United States the term “apartment-house” is applied to what in England are called flats. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4|Various Whether it came from the apartment-house or one of the private dwellings next to it, he was in doubt. An Artist in Crime|Rodrigues Ottolengui Now they reached the apartment-house district and slid past block after block of bulky living apartments. The Secret Wireless|Lewis E. Theiss
The apartment-house, however, soars to heights that the tenement-house never half reached, and is sometimes ten stories high. Through the Eye of the Needle|William Dean Howells
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