Meaning

3 senses
  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.

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: garden apartments

Synonyms

2 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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