Definition of "block of flats" []

• A residential building consisting of apartments. (noun)

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• "Lord Peter duly fulfilled the conditions imposed upon him, and arrived on foot at the block of flats in South Audley Street."
• "Mr. Campion saw the studio as soon as he pushed open the gate in the blank wall behind the huge margarine-coloured block of flats and came out on to the iron staircase high above the untidy strip of sunken garden."
• "He made his leisurely way to the rue Picpus where Pardon lived in an old block of flats without a lift."