The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apartment house \A*part"ment house\ A building comprising a number of lving units (apartments[4]) designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; contrasted to a detached dwelling. Sometimes distinguished in the United States from a flat house, in which each living unit comprises one entire floor, whereas in an apartment house a floor may be partitioned into any number of apartments[4].
WordNet
n. a building that is divided into apartments [syn: apartment building]
Usage examples of "apartment house".
Jimmy Guang was stiff and chilly from his vigil, which he had kept from the vantage of a second-floor balcony in an empty apartment house opposite the bar.
It was close to 5:30 when we reached the apartment house on Market.
Then I climbed the stairs of the apartment house and located apartment 3A.
One hundred eight West Ninety-ninth Street was a broad, prewar apartment house, unembarrassed by any distinguishing architecture, bright in the noonday sun.
Looking out the windshield, thinking about Parker, Little Bob suddenly saw Arnie coming out of the apartment house ahead in the hands of the law.
When we get back to the apartment house parking lot, he helps me put the two good new tires on the front wheels of my car and the slashed tires from the front into my trunk.
Her building was a prewar apartment house, brickfronted, fourteen stories, with a tile floor and potted palms in the lobby.
On an outside chance, he went to the apartment house where the assistant had lived, identified himself to the manager, and asked to see the rooms if they had not already been vacated.