garden apartment

noun

1. an apartment on the ground floor of an apartment building having direct access to a backyard or garden.
2. a low-level apartment building or building complex surrounded by lawns and trees, shrubbery, or gardens.

Word History and Origins

Origin of garden apartment¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

Driving past garden apartment complexes and rows of townhomes, she pointed to hidden pockets of density.

From New York Times

From that point, the play settles in as a real-time chamber piece set against David Israel Reynoso’s grimy garden apartment set, complete with poorly plastered walls and broken blinds.

From Washington Post

In May, two garden apartment complexes in Queens and the owner of a mixed-use building in Manhattan sued the city, alleging that the law would saddle them and others with “draconian” fines and asking that enforcement be blocked.

From New York Times

The deaths occurred in the Camden Fair Lakes apartment complex just off Monument Drive, a collection of three- and four-story garden apartment buildings.

From Washington Post

Q: My partner and I bought a condo in a historic garden apartment complex about 18 months ago.

From Washington Post