Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

apartment house

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.61 in modern English

Syllables: apart-men-t -house
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of apartment building: any building comprising apartments.

noun

A house comparable in size to a single-family house but comprising several apartments; typically not more than two or three stories tall and containing a single-digit number of apartments (such as two to six).

Example Sentences

"Heritage House is a ten-story apartment house for seniors in the heart of downtown."
"Armitage House is a stately old home on Main Street; it was built in the 1910s as the private home of a local factory owner, and years later it was converted into a trendy apartment house. [tour bus banter]"

Inflected Forms

apartment houses (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

apartment building

Synonyms

apartment building

Questions

What does apartment house mean?: Synonym of apartment building: any building comprising apartments.

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