apartment building meaning

Definition of apartment building

1. a building that is divided into apartments

   Synonyms: apartment house

   Type of: building

   Kinds: tenement, walk-up

apartment building in a sentence

• No one who owns a pet is allowed to live in this apartment building.
• The apartment building is on fire.
• He lives on the third floor of this apartment building.
• There was a murder in my apartment building last summer.
• Michael doesn't live in that nice apartment building.

How to pronounce apartment building

apartment building is pronounced /əˈpɑːtmənt ˈbɪldɪŋ/ in British English and /əˈpɑrtmənt ˈbɪldɪŋ/ in American English. It has 5 syllables.