APARTMENT BUILDING
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)
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 rundown apartment house barely meeting minimal standards)
walk-up (an apartment building without an elevator)
