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APARTMENT BUILDING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A building that is divided into apartments
Synonyms:
apartment building; apartment house
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("apartment building" is a kind of...):
building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)
Meronyms (parts of "apartment building"):
apartment; flat (a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "apartment building"):
tenement; tenement house (a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards)
walk-up (an apartment building without an elevator)
