APARTMENT BUILDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apartment building mean? 

• APARTMENT BUILDING (noun)
  The noun APARTMENT BUILDING has 1 sense:

1. a building that is divided into apartments

  Familiarity information: APARTMENT BUILDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APARTMENT BUILDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A building that is divided into apartments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

apartment building; apartment house

Hypernyms ("apartment building" is a kind of...):

building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

Meronyms (parts of "apartment building"):

apartment; flat (a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "apartment building"):

tenement; tenement house (a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards)

walk-up (an apartment building without an elevator)

 Context examples 

Your landlord could announce she sold your apartment building, and you will need to move.

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