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WALK-UP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An apartment building without an elevator
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("walk-up" is a kind of...):
apartment building; apartment house (a building that is divided into apartments)
Meronyms (parts of "walk-up"):
walk-up; walk-up apartment (an apartment in a building without an elevator)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An apartment in a building without an elevator
Synonyms:
walk-up; walk-up apartment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("walk-up" is a kind of...):
apartment; flat (a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house)
Holonyms ("walk-up" is a part of...):
walk-up (an apartment building without an elevator)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
a walk-up apartment
Classified under:
Similar:
low-rise (used of buildings of one or only a few stories and usually no elevator; low)