Definition of "apartment-house" []

• A building divided into separate suites of rooms, intended for residence, but commonly without facilities for cooking, and in this respect different from a flat, though the two words are often used interchangeably (see flat): also distinguished from tenement-house (which see). (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Inspiration not just in the superheroics, but in what seemed mundane to the New Yorkers who had created those comics, such as pizzerias and apartment-house water tanks."
• "He was a suspect in an apartment-house fire that killed a child."
• "When he was nineteen, Vidor Perkins had been a suspect in an apartment-house arson that killed three people, one of them a child."