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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

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apartment building

Also in the East Coast, the couple also owns a 6,000-square-foot apartment building in Manhattan.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

Two blocks from my hotel I found another earth god shrine, no bigger than a kitchen cabinet, at the base of an apartment building wall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Joe Porter toured the squat apartment building in L.A.’s Koreatown five years ago, excited to be leaving his parents’ house in Arkansas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

The landslide buried the first floor of an apartment building in the south-eastern city of Geoje on Monday morning.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

So I stomp ahead of him, down the stairs, and out of our apartment building.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman