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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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“I bet that’s what you’re going to find down the road: These places will become vacant, and suddenly there’s groundbreaking for a new apartment building going up.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

“If stuff was not flying over our heads, it would be fine,” she said, sitting at the bench by her apartment building, which was struck by a drone last year.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

In early February, an MK30 drone making a delivery hit the side of an apartment building in a suburb of Dallas in Texas.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

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

A Latino family stepped tentatively out onto the balcony of another apartment building.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz