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🌞 Outdoor sitting area 🏘️ Row of houses ⛰️ Flat land step 🪜 To make land flat 🏡 To add outdoor area
to terrace

to terrace

1 4.3
To add a flat outdoor area next to a building for sitting
  • verb
  • /ˈtɛrəs/
translation icon : construir una terraza

Antonyms

to remove
∞ 1.5

To move something or someone away from a place

Surface Forms

terrace infinitive
terraced past
terraced past participle
terracing present participle
terraces third person singular

Etymology

Terrace comes from the Latin word terra meaning 'earth', and to 'terrace' a house is to give it a flat outdoor area of land. So when you terrace a home you add a flat space for sitting or eating outside.