WALK-UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does walk-up mean? 

• WALK-UP (noun)
  The noun WALK-UP has 2 senses:

1. an apartment in a building without an elevator

2. an apartment building without an elevator

  Familiarity information: WALK-UP used as a noun is rare.

• WALK-UP (adjective)
  The adjective WALK-UP has 1 sense:

1. a building with no elevator

  Familiarity information: WALK-UP used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WALK-UP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An apartment in a building without an elevator

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

walk-up; walk-up apartment

Hypernyms ("walk-up" is a kind of...):

apartment; flat (a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house)

Holonyms ("walk-up" is a part of...):

walk-up (an apartment building without an elevator)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An apartment building without an elevator

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("walk-up" is a kind of...):

apartment building; apartment house (a building that is divided into apartments)

Meronyms (parts of "walk-up"):

walk-up; walk-up apartment (an apartment in a building without an elevator)

• WALK-UP (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A building with no elevator

Context example:

a walk-up apartment

Similar:

low-rise (used of buildings of one or only a few stories and usually no elevator; low)