APARTMENT HOUSE

I. (noun)

Meaning:

A building that is divided into apartments

Synonyms:

apartment building; apartment house

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("apartment house" 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 house"):

apartment; flat (a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "apartment house"):

tenement; tenement house (a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards)

walk-up (an apartment building without an elevator)