Apartment house

A`part´ment house

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A building comprising a number of lving units (apartments{4}) designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; contrasted to a detached dwelling. Sometimes distinguished in the United States from a flat house, in which each living unit comprises one entire floor, whereas in an apartment house a floor may be partitioned into any number of apartments{4}.

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Noun

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apartment house - a building that is divided into apartments apartment building apartment, flat - a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" tenement, tenement house - a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards walk-up - an apartment building without an elevator