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apartment building

NOUN

building with many living units

Synonyms

STRONGEST

apartment block apartment complex apartment house apartments flats multi-dwelling unit tenement

STRONG

co-op condo condominium

WEAK

flat house high-rise apartment residential complex tower block

Example Sentences

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You took a substantial risk early in your life by investing in an apartment building and living modestly in one of those apartments.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

The Froma Gurvitz house, built in 1937, as well as a cafe and an apartment building were among the modernist buildings directly hit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Beetz stars as Asia, a young woman who turns up on the stoop of a high-end Manhattan apartment building, the Virgil, answering an ad for a maid job.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

AFP footage showed heavy damage to an apartment building, next to a crater formed in the ground.

From Barron's • Mar. 22, 2026

He didn’t comment as he pulled up in front of the Panthers’ apartment building.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon