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apartment building

A building divided into apartments. Also called apartment house.

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Noun

apartment building - a building that is divided into apartments

apartment house

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

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apartment building

n (Am) → stabile m, caseggiato

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