apartment building

noun

: a building containing separate residential apartments

called also apartment house

Examples of apartment building in a Sentence

We lived in an apartment building for several years before buying a house.

Recent Examples on the Web

The strike destroyed the apartment building and started a fire. — Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026

DriVe2X sees potential applications in mobility hubs, apartment buildings, and single-family houses. — New Atlas, 4 Oct. 2026

Forty-one percent of Chicago is zoned for single-family homes or two-flats, and only 11% is zoned for three-flats, four-flats and apartment buildings. — Bennett Lawson, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2026

Upon arrival, firefighters reported seeing heavy fire from a three-story vacant apartment building, according to Battalion Chief Michael Hopkins. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1845, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for apartment building

• boatbuilding
• outbuilding
• rebuilding
• roadbuilding
• shipbuilding
• upbuilding
• bodybuilding
• gilding

Kids Definition

apartment building

noun

: a building containing several individual apartments