Definition of "apartment building" []

• A building divided into apartments. Also called apartment house. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The closest I can get to my father is to trail her downstairs to the phone booth in front of our apartment building and wait, leaning on the squeaky door, during the daily call to a woman in Hospital Information."
• "I show up at the apartment building and am immediately given a cavity search by a massive doorman with a name tag reading BRAWN."
• "Firefighters were at the scene of a three-alarm fire at an apartment building in southwest"