Definition of "apartment house" []

• A building comprising a number of lving units (apartments{4}) designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; contrasted to a detached dwelling. Sometimes distinguished in the United States from a <contr>flat house</contr>, in which each living unit comprises one entire floor, whereas in an apartment house a floor may be partitioned into any number of apartments{4}.

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• "The CSIs in their Tahoe followed Detective Erin Conroy in her Taurus through typically bustling Vegas wee-hours traffic to the three-story motel-like apartment house where Tera Jameson and Jenna Patrick had once lived."
• "Stuey was then living at the Jockey Club, an eleven-story luxury apartment house right next to the Dunes, but he gave Madeline money to buy a condo—“I think it was about $32,000,” she said—and she purchased a little place on Paradise off Harmon."
• "I pulled over in front of a tan brick apartment house across from Kalorama Park."