English

Noun

plex ‎(plural plexes)

1. (Canada) A low-rise apartment building.
   • 2001, Thomas F. McIlwraith, Edward K. Muller, North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent (page 457)

     Most new housing has taken the form of single-family dwellings, not plexes, and levels of home ownership have risen steadily.

   • 2004, Richard Harris, Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960 (page 34)

     English-style terraced houses or the cheaper type of Montreal plexes that opened directly onto the street made such a way of life possible, but just barely.