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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

3 5.8
To form land into flat stepped areas for farming
  • verb
  • /ˈtɛrəs/
translation icon : terrazar
  • Facilities are helping the freshmen construct herb boxes and terrace a hill.
  • terrace fields
  • terrace gardens
  • terrace the landscape

Examples

  • We thought about, you know, maybe one day terracing this area, but it's it's north facing.

  • So to create that, we are going to terrace this backyard.

  • One of the largest in the eastern Mediterranean, it is terraced on at least three levels.

    Academic text (2005)

  • The Incas had hundreds of miles of canals and terraced the mountains to yield crops.

    Blog text (34)

  • The next day, the patriarch of the family, 71-year-old Hukam Chand, guided me past the green terraced fields to Kheri Kot.

    Academic text (2008)

  • To increase the arable land, we decided to terrace the hillside for more effective farming.

  • Farmers often terrace steep slopes to prevent soil erosion and improve crop yield.

  • After careful planning, we will terrace the garden area to create flat spaces for planting.

Antonyms

to flatten
23 2.6

Make something flat and smooth by pressing it

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' land is to shape the 'earth' into flat steps. That is why farmers terrace hillsides to make level areas for crops.