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terrace

ter·race

UK/ˈtɛɹəs/ US/ˈtɛrʌs/ fairly common informal uk
noun (3) verb (2)

noun

1.
2.

a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)

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3.

a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face)

  • “Grosvenor Terrace”

verb

1.

provide (a house) with a terrace

  • “We terrassed the country house”
Synonyms
2.

make into terraces as for cultivation

  • “The Incas terraced their mountainous land”

Origin

Borrowed from French terrasse, from Old Occitan terrassa, from Vulgar Latin *terrācea, from terra (“land”). Doublet of terrasse.

Phrases

  • café terrace
  • Club Terrace
  • end of terrace
  • Hamlyn Terrace
  • Raymond Terrace
  • Spring Terrace
  • terrace chant
  • Terrace Creek

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