apartment building
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1.2
- noun
- /əˈpɑːrtmənt ˈbɪldɪŋ/
- US
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edificio de apartamentos
- On one side, a tall apartment building about eight stories high looms straight up.
- live in apartment buildings
- two-story apartment building
- high-rise apartment building
And what happened was that four apartment buildings were blown up in the middle of the night.
- And what happened was that four apartment buildings were blown up in the middle of the night.
- Mostly what I use it for though is friends that live in condominiums or apartment buildings that have fobs.
- She ends up staying, finding a place to stay in an apartment building.
- So we went and flew to Medellin and went to the the nice apartment building right downtown.
- Isador in his empty apartment building is going through something quite similar.
- An American invented the elevator, and somehow we can't build apartment buildings.
- Yeah, just minding my business, Got out my car, walking to the apartment building.
- But my point is, you know, we started from Africa and we got to apartment buildings in Manhattan, right?
- And I started to think back then, if you could wind up dying in your own apartment building.
Examples
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You just pulled up to your apartment building with a trunk full of groceries.
Academic text (1993) -
And the, the project that we're building in Malaysia is apartment buildings for a property developer.
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Tenants at Riverside are clear about the benefits of the garden at their apartment building.
Academic text (2004) -
My wife and I lived in an apartment building on 153rd Street.
Academic text (2004) -
They aren't too different from the apartment buildings I grew up in.
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The cab, empty, parked in front of an apartment building in a working-class neighborhood.
Fiction book (1990) -
My friend lives in a modern apartment building with a great view of the city.
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The apartment building has a swimming pool and a fitness center for residents.
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After searching for weeks, they finally found an apartment building that accepted pets.
Synonyms
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3.0
A tall building with many floors that holds homes or offices
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3.5
A building divided into two separate homes, often one above the other
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2.0
A building with many separate homes where different people live
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7.6
A building with several separate units like apartments or offices
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5.2
A building divided into three homes, each with its own entrance
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4.1
A house divided into several separate homes for different families
A very large building that contains many apartments
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a building divided into separate apartments' is directly derivable from combining 'apartment' (a self-contained living space) with 'building' (a physical edifice). This noun–noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic composition pattern and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Apartment building is a simple picture: a building that contains many separate apartments, like small homes inside one larger house. That's why it means 'a large building divided into separate apartments for people to live in.'