terraced house
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈtɛr.əst haʊs/
- UK
:
casa adosada
- They talked and they talked for hours in the flat, staying up late at night while the rest of the city slept, and there were just pinpoints of streetlights for company in the rows of terraced houses.
I lived in a little terraced house in a town St.
- I lived in a little terraced house in a town St.
Examples
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My house is a terraced house with a pink door, white-bricked, with a crack in the gable.
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The church stands at the end of a street of terraced houses, an imposing facade behind pillars and a flight of steps.
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I lived in a little terraced house in a town St.
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I mean, one who lives in a terraced house behind a train station.
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A black London taxi is parked outside a terraced house with its motor idling.
Fiction book (1997) -
I live with my husband in a terraced house in one of the not-nice parts of Essex. I'm not too far from London, and it's not.
Blog text (9) -
My childhood home was a terraced house in the heart of North London's Caribbean community.
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A black London taxi is parked outside a terraced house with its motor idling.
Synonyms
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2.0
A house that shares walls with other houses in a row, often in a city
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3.2
A row of similar houses joined together along their sides
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3.4
A house in a long line that shares side walls with others
How Attached
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'a house in a continuous row joined by shared walls' is only partly derivable from 'terraced' + 'house': while 'terraced' signals an arranged or tiered form, many learners may interpret 'terrace' as a patio or level rather than a row of attached houses, and the specific notion of houses joined side-by-side is lexicalized. The term is also dialectally marked (common in British English) and varies across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents may still need prior exposure to get the exact meaning.
Etymology
Terraced house comes from the picture of a long flat terrace where houses stand side by side like a line or steps, each one touching the next. So a terraced house is a house 'joined' to others in a row, sharing walls.