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townhouse

townhouse

47 2.0
A house that shares walls with other houses in a row, often in a city
  • noun
  • /ˈtaʊnˌhaʊs/
translation icon : casa adosada
  • I just moved into a spacious townhouse with a lovely garden and three bedrooms.

And then from here, we moved to our last townhouse and then we bought a house.

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Examples

  • The bank seized her townhouse.

  • The taxi dropped her in front of the narrow townhouse she had seen little more than an hour before.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • It's worth saying that I have a three floor townhouse with lots of steps.

  • Here is our townhouse in Texas.

  • And so I got this really quiet three story townhouse in Eagle Rock.

  • Now, the car will take you straight to Miranda's townhouse.

  • How are the renovations coming on that $4 million townhouse in Brooklyn Heights?

  • A woman turned from the sidewalk onto the stoop of the townhouse and went up to the door.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Sondra stood in the doorway of a townhouse across the street from the church.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • He owned a magnificent townhouse in in Knightsbridge, London, right by Harrods.

Synonyms

house
vstownhouse
1.0

A building where one family lives

is more specific attached and often multifloor in urban areas
row house
vstownhouse
  • US
9 3.4

A house in a long line that shares side walls with others

is mainly used for attached urban multifloor residences
townhome
vstownhouse
  • US
4 3.2

A house that shares walls with neighbors and has its own entrance

is more about city location and multiple floors
town house
vstownhouse
1 3.0

A house in a row that shares walls with neighbours

is the same meaning but written as two words
terraced house
vstownhouse
  • UK
1 2.5

A house joined to other houses in a row by shared walls

is the general term for attached multifloor residences in cities
dwelling house
vstownhouse
2.8

A house or building where people live, not a business building

is narrower meaning attached multifloor city residences

Antonyms

A house that stands alone and is not attached to other houses

How Attached

terraced house
  • UK
1 2.5
townhouse
47 2.0

Surface Forms

townhouse singular
townhouses plural

Morphology

townhouse = town + house (transparent) = town + house

The meaning is directly derived from 'town' + 'house' (a house in a town/urban setting), which learners can readily infer.

Etymology

Townhouse comes from the two simple words town and house, meaning a 'house in a town'. That's why a townhouse usually means a city home built in a row and attached to other houses, often with several floors.