apartment house
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2.0
- noun
- /əˈpɑːrtmənt haʊs/
- US
:
edificio de apartamentos
- I live in a modern apartment house located in the heart of the city.
- build apartment houses
That buys this apartment house buys that.
- That buys this apartment house buys that.
- And apartment house, OK, having my boyfriend over here, that's part of the plan too.
Examples
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Office buildings and apartment houses crowd the skyline, and barges with derricks work the river.
Fiction book (2001) -
This is an apartment house, not an office!
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But a dog in an apartment house is nice.
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Most of the apartment houses will open out into the sea.
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I halt in front of the nine stone steps leading into the apartment house I live in.
Fiction book (1995) -
Her late husband left her two hotels and a large apartment house, furnished.
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When we reached their apartment house, I pulled over to the curb.
Fiction book (1996) -
We see Ferrie in a phone booth on the street outside his apartment house in the French Quarter.
Fiction book (1991) -
At that time, Professor Sasashima, a bachelor, had been living in the same apartment house.
Fiction book (1993) -
Mr. Zapiski lived in an apartment house on top of a steep, narrow cobblestone street.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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1.2
A large building with many separate homes where people live
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4.8
A large building divided into small, cheap apartments that is often in poor condition
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4.6
An old, run-down apartment building where many poor families live
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Morphology
The meaning 'a building divided into separate apartments' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'apartment' (self-contained living space) with 'house' (building for living); the compound simply names a house composed of apartments. This kind of nominal compounding is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English composition patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Apartment house comes from a simple picture: a house that is split into many apartments, each a small home where people 'live'. So, the term means 'a building divided into separate apartments'.