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| apartment building |
a building containing a number of individual apartments; apartment house. |
| cliff dweller |
(informal) a person who lives in a many-storied urban apartment house. [1/2 definitions] |
| cooperative |
an apartment house in which the tenants own their individual apartments. [1/4 definitions] |
| doorman |
one whose job is to tend the entrance of an apartment house, hotel, or other building, and to assist residents or guests. |
| roof garden |
a garden on the flat roof of an apartment house, hotel, or the like. [1/2 definitions] |
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