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Definition of Apartment building
1. Noun. A building that is divided into apartments.
Terms within: Apartment, Flat
Generic synonyms: Building, Edifice
Specialized synonyms: Tenement, Tenement House, Walk-up
Definition of Apartment building
1. Noun. A residential building containing multiple apartments or flats. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apartment Building
Literary usage of Apartment building
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"... POETRY Maxwell Bodenheim THE REAR-PORCHES OF AN APARTMENT-BUILDING A sky that
has never known sun, moon or stars, A sky that is like a dead, kind face, ..."
2. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1895)
"to space has often arisen in construing blanket policies covering either an
apartment building or more than one structure, and the decided weight of ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1901)
"... apartment building, fronting east on Orchard street, when restrained 'by
injunction in this case. It is apparent that not only as to Wrightwood avenue, ..."
4. The Architectural Review (1919)
"The architect of this apartment building specified AB See elevator machines of
the type shown below. AB SEE ELECTRIC ELEVATOR CO. ..."
5. Others, an Anthology of the New Verse by Alfred Kreymborg (1916)
"THE REAR PORCHES OF AN APARTMENT-BUILDING A sky that has never known sun, moon
or stars: A sky that is like a dead, kind face Would have the color of your ..."
6. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1912)
"10 shows a 12-story elevator apartment building with six apartments to a floor
... 17 illustrates the case of a six-story apartment building having eight ..."
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