terrace
IPA: tˈɛrʌs
noun
- A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment
- A platform that extends outwards from a building.
- (agriculture) 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.
- (geology) A step-like landform; (sometimes) remnants of floodplains.
- A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
- (UK, informal) A single house in such a group.
- (in the plural, chiefly Britain) The standing area of a sports stadium.
- (chiefly India) 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.
- (heraldry) A champagne, (an ordinary occupying) the base of the shield.
- A city in British Columbia, Canada
verb
- To provide something with a terrace.
- To form something into a terrace.
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Examples of "terrace" in Sentences
- The terrace is heading North.
- I widened my room by removing the terrace.
- How much did it cost to revamp the terrace
- Above the bulwark is a terrace with six turrets.
- In the east and the west the summit plateau was terraced.
- The wet wheat is then dried in the sun on the terrace of the house.
- The is a restaurant located in the terrace and garden of the museum.
- Edwardian terraced housing and tatty old workshops aren't really landmarks.
- The long terrace at the rear of the house is decorated with Florentine vases.
- The money was not for these poky terraced houses with their short back gardens.
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