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)
- A detached mother-in-law apartment or cottage on the same parcel as the main house.
- 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
Synonyms
- in law unit
- back house