garden apartment

English

Etymology

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

Noun

garden apartment (plural garden apartments)

  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

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