Terrace

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A porch or walkway bordered by colonnades.
  • n. A platform extending outdoors from a floor of a house or apartment building.
  • n. An open, often paved area adjacent to a house serving as an outdoor living space; a patio.
  • n. A raised bank of earth having vertical or sloping sides and a flat top: turning a hillside into a series of ascending terraces for farming.
  • n. A flat, narrow stretch of ground, often having a steep slope facing a river, lake, or sea.
  • n. A row of buildings erected on raised ground or on a sloping site.
  • n. A section of row houses.
  • n. A residential street, especially on a slope or hill.
  • n. A narrow strip of landscaped earth in the middle of a street.
  • n. Chiefly Upper Northern & Midwestern U.S. See parking. See Regional Note at parking.
  • v. To provide (a house, for example) with a terrace or terraces.
  • v. To form (a hillside or sloping lawn, for example) into terraces.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A platform that extends outwards from a building.
  • n. A raised, flat-topped bank of earth with sloping sides, especially one of a series for farming or leisure; a similar natural area of ground, often next to a river.
  • n. A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
  • n. The standing area at a football ground.
  • n. The roof of a building, especially if accessible to the residents. Often used for drying laundry, sun-drying foodstuffs, exercise, or sleeping outdoors in hot weather.
  • v. To provide something with a terrace.
  • v. To form something into a terrace.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A raised level space, shelf, or platform of earth, supported on one or more sides by a wall, a bank of tuft, or the like, whether designed for use or pleasure.
  • n. A balcony, especially a large and uncovered one.
  • n. A flat roof to a house.
  • n. A street, or a row of houses, on a bank or the side of a hill; hence, any street, or row of houses.
  • n. A level plain, usually with a steep front, bordering a river, a lake, or sometimes the sea.
  • v. To form into a terrace or terraces; to furnish with a terrace or terraces, .
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A raised level faced with masonry or turf; an elevated flat space: as, a garden terrace; also, a natural formation of the ground resembling such a terrace.
  • n. In geology, a strip of land, nearly level, extending along the margin of the sea, a lake. or a river, and terminating on the side toward the water in a more or less abrupt descent: a beach; a raised beach. Also called in Scotland a carse, and in parts of the United States where Spanish was formerly spoken a mesa, or meseta.
  • n. A street or row of houses running along the face or top of a slope: often applied arbitrarily, as a fancy name, to ordinary streets or ranges of houses.
  • n. The flat roof of a house, as of Oriental and Spanish houses.
  • n. A balcony, or open gallery.
  • n. In marble-working, a defective spot in marble, which, after being cleaned out, is filled with some artificial preparation. Also terrasse.
  • To form into a terrace; furnish with a terrace.
  • n. A variety of mortar used for pargeting and the like, and for lining kilns for pottery.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
  • v. make into terraces as for cultivation
  • n. usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence
  • v. provide (a house) with a terrace
  • n. a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face)
  • Verb Form
    terraced    terraces    terracing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    plateau    table-land    form    shape    furnish    provide    supply    render    row   
    Form
    terraced    terracing   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ahasuerus    Embarrass    Meris    Polaris    embarrass    ferrous    heiress    nonferrous   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    balcony    courtyard    staircase    lawn    rampart    ledge    cliff    veranda    dome    garden