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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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

The devices can -- theoretically, at least -- provide internet to an entire family or apartment building.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Our new home was in an apartment building at Przemyslowa Street 13, just south of the river.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson