Find the word definition

WordNet
walk-up apartment

n. an apartment in a building without an elevator [syn: walk-up]

Usage examples of "walk-up apartment".

I went first to shady, tree-lined Sweetzer Avenue in West Hollywood, and got the results I expected: no one at the 618 address, a Spanish-style walk-up apartment building, recalled the redheaded nurse or her then-infant son.

He knew intellectually that Howe was a multimillionaire, but as a man who had never made more than fifteen thousand a year the confrontation with the impressive grounds and magnificent house gave him an emotional jolt, an instinctive comparison of his walk-up apartment, a put-down.

When I visited them in their Houston Street walk-up apartment in New York that summer, we drank Medaglia D'Oro coffee thick as fur which they brewed on their tiny stove in a weirdly shaped coffee pot Nelson had bought in Italy.

Four- and five-story walk-up apartment houses, with their backs to the tracks, at least ten families to a building, more usually twenty or more, and the buildings crushed together almost wall to wall.

McSwiney had a small and cluttered walk-up apartment in one of the less-restored old houses that had been divided and subdivided almost as many times as the collective rent of the various tenants had been withheld, or paid late.

Small stucco houses and walk-up apartment buildings ran to the north.

A little beyond her, dim yellow light came from the stairway of a walk-up apartment house.