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garden apartment en · NOUN

Etymology

So called since this form of housing is usually a cottage built in a home's back yard garden area.

Meanings

1. A detached mother-in-law apartment or cottage on the same parcel as the main house.
2. One of a set of low-rise apartment buildings built among landscaped grounds and often arranged around courtyards that are open at one end.
   • a garden apartment complex
3. An urban apartment in a multistory building located at or below ground level.
   • "Because you're in the basement living in a garden apartment, when people are moving around upstairs, you can hear it. You wake up, look around, and realize it's someone above you," he said. 2003 August 15, Chuck Green, “Tenants are high on garden apartments”, in Chicago Tribune:

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Synonyms

back house · in-law unit