Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

garden apartment

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.40 in modern English

Syllables: gar-den a-part-ment
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A detached mother-in-law apartment or cottage on the same parcel as the main house.

noun

One of a set of low-rise apartment buildings built among landscaped grounds and often arranged around courtyards that are open at one end.

noun

An urban apartment in a multistory building located at or below ground level.

Example Sentences

"a garden apartment complex"
""Because you're in the basement living in a garden apartment, when people are moving around upstairs, you can hear it. You wake up, look around, and realize it's someone above you," he said."

Etymology

So called since this form of housing is usually a cottage built in a home's back yard garden area.

Inflected Forms

garden apartments (plural)

Synonyms

in-law unit back house

Questions

What does garden apartment mean?: A detached mother-in-law apartment or cottage on the same parcel as the main house.
Where does garden apartment come from?: So called since this form of housing is usually a cottage built in a home's back yard garden area.

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