apartment building

NOUN

building with many living units

Synonyms

STRONGEST

apartment block apartment complex apartment house apartments flats multi-dwelling unit tenement

STRONG

co-op condo condominium

WEAK

flat house high-rise apartment residential complex tower block

Example Sentences

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In early February, an MK30 drone making a delivery hit the side of an apartment building in a suburb of Dallas in Texas.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

You took a substantial risk early in your life by investing in an apartment building and living modestly in one of those apartments.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

Parking in her apartment building, for instance, costs $150 a month.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Beetz stars as Asia, a young woman who turns up on the stoop of a high-end Manhattan apartment building, the Virgil, answering an ad for a maid job.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

And that’s true for this apartment building, too.

From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks