town house
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3.0
- noun
- /taʊn haʊs/
:
casa adosada
- I've got a beautifully converted Victorian town house.
- town house with four bedrooms
Examples
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I had to give up the town house the first time around.
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You said you got the town house off a luxury rental website.
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It's a beautifully converted Victorian town house.
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Fay, I've got a town house in London and a country seat in Kent-- -
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In addition, Peggy has commissioned you to paint... a mural for the entrance hall to her new town house on 61st and Lexington.
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The newlyweds bought a charming town house that shares walls with their neighbors.
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After years of living in an apartment, she finally moved into a spacious town house with a small garden.
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The real estate agent showed us several options, including a modern town house with a rooftop terrace.
Synonyms
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1.0
A building where one family lives
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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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3.4
A house in a long line that shares side walls with others
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3.2
A house that shares walls with neighbors and has its own entrance
A house or building where people live, not a business building
How Detached
Surface Forms
Morphology
Knowing 'town' and 'house' lets a learner infer an urban dwelling (a house associated with a town), so the basic idea is compositional. However, the conventional, more specific sense—one of a row of similar houses sharing walls (townhouse/row house)—is a specialized architectural sense that is not fully predictable from the constituents alone, so partial prior exposure helps.
Etymology
Town house comes from the simple idea of town plus house. It was a house people kept in the town rather than the country, often built side by side and sharing walls, so town house means 'a house in a city, often one of a row of houses attached to each other'.