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Apartment House

Definition: Apartment House

Apartment House

Noun

1. A building that is divided into apartments.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Apartment House

Synonym: apartment building (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Apartment House

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abode

House, mansion, place, villa, cottage, box, lodge, hermitage, rus in urbe, folly, rotunda, tower, chateau, castle, pavilion, hotel, court, manor-house, capital messuage, hall, palace; kiosk, bungalow; casa, country seat, apartment house, flat house, frame house, shingle house, tenement house; temple.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Apartment House

English words defined with "apartment house": apartmentcondominiumflatsuper, superintendenttenement, tenement house. (references)
Specialty definitions using "apartment house": Household Wastemaintenance engineer, MANAGER, APARTMENT HOUSERESIDENTIAL BUILDINGservice-car operator, superintendent, building. (references)

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Modern Usage: Apartment House

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Apartment House Mystery (1915)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Apartment House

DomainTitle

Books

  • Riddle Street Mystery Series 1: Wrong Robber Mystery, Market Stake-Out Mystery, Haunted Apartment House Mystery, Book Party Mystery, and Radio statio (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Apartment House

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Photo Album: Apartment House

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Caption: Apartment House, 173-175 Riverside Drive, New York, New York; New York, NY; Unknown Date; {08.110/4} (jpg).

Architectural drawing for an apartment house ("Admiral Apartments"), Admiral Barney Circle, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wooden (log) apartment house, Dvina River embankment (1990s), Arkhangelsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Dakota Apartment House, New York, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Apartment house at Greenbelt, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rear stairs of apartment house, L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

Children of citrus workers in hallway of apartment house. Winterhaven, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

Front of apartment house on the Arizona part-time farms. Chandler Unit, Maricopa County, Arizona. Credit: Library of Congress.

Jacksonville, Florida. Negro apartment house. Credit: Library of Congress.

A.R. Clas buildings. Apartment house. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Apartment House

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

apartment house wrestling

111

apartment house lane school

4

apartment house london serviced

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Apartment House

Language Translations for "apartment house"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏منزل به عدة غرف. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

жилищен блок (apartment building, mansions). (various references)

   

Czech

  

èinžovní dùm (tenement, tenement house). (various references)

   

French

  

maison de plusieurs pièces. (various references)

   

German

  

wohnblock (block of flats), mietshaus (tenement). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

בית "ירות (tenement). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bérház (block of flats, land, tenement house). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

マンクス猫 (large apartment, Manchester, mandarin, mandarin collar, Mandelbrot, mandrill, mango, mangosteen, mangrove, manteau, mantis, mantle, mantlepiece, man-to-man, man-to-man defense, Manx cat, mongoose, monthly, Munshingwear, one-to-one, paying off one's entire credit card balance monthly), 共同住宅 (settlement). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

マンション (large apartment), きょうどうじゅうたく (settlement). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apartmentay ousehay

   

Portuguese

  

edifício (building, edifice, erection, fabric, premise). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

imobil (firm, fixed, immobile, immovable, motionless, standing, stationary, steadfast, still), blochaus (building). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

многоквартирный дом (mansions, tenement house). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

stanbena zgrada. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

casa de pisos (apartment building, apartment complex, tenement). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hyreshus (mansion, mansions, tenement house). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

apartman (apartment block, apartment building, block, building, rooms). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Apartment House

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

insula, insulae, insulam, insularum, insulas, insulis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Apartment House

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-h-m-n-o-p-r-s-t-t-u"

-2 letters: portmanteaus.

-3 letters: houseparent, metanephros, naturopaths, pentamerous, portmanteau, treponemata.

-4 letters: anastrophe, apartments, athenaeums, atmosphere, menstruate, metaphrase, mouthparts, naturopath, nethermost, paramounts, pothunters, stenotherm, stepmother, treponemas.

-5 letters: aeronauts, amarettos, amputates, anteaters, apartment, astronaut, athenaeum, atheneums, atheromas, attempers, automates, earphones, earthnuts, earthpeas, emanators, entrepots, ephorates, heartsome, hepatomas, housemate, marathons, maturates, menopause, metaphase, metaphors, mousetrap, mouthpart, neuromata, northeast, numerates.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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