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tower block
noun as in apartment building
Strongest matches
- apartment block
- apartment complex
- apartment house
- apartments
- flats
- multi-dwelling unit
- tenement
Strong matches
Weak matches
- flat house
- high-rise apartment
- residential complex
Example Sentences
I have to climb my tower block by stairs, my refrigerator has turned off, I cannot take online classes, cannot study, no water, no electricity and no gas at home.
Each year, China builds about 15 million new homes—over five times those in America and Europe combined—yet a quarter of the current stock already lies empty, with forests of unoccupied tower blocks ringing many second and third-tier cities.
Today, a 12-story tower block stands directly atop its point of impact.
Elsewhere, a railway on stilts circles a group of multicolored tower blocks.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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