fourplex

[ fawr-pleks, fohr- ]

noun

, Architecture.

1. quadplex.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fourplex¹

1970–75; four + -plex, abstracted from duplex ( apartment ), in place of quadruplex

Example Sentences

In Los Angeles, screenshots show the owner of a fourplex in Silver Lake told a tester that Section 8 wasn’t a possibility.

From Los Angeles Times

She used to live on the 68th floor of a condo tower in downtown Toronto, but five years ago she relocated to a four-unit residential building called a fourplex, in the city’s more low-rise midtown area.

From BBC

Tom Knezic, a Toronto architect and co-founder of Solares Architecture, designed one fourplex currently being rented in the city, and also designed four now under construction.

From BBC

But if you lived in a fourplex and your landlord lives in one of the units, they would not be exempt from the limit.

From Seattle Times

Short contrasts this with a Redmond fourplex without sprinklers that has taken more than a year to rebuild after a fire.

From Seattle Times