Semi-detached
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Semi-detached is an adjective meaning Of a house: joined to another one on one side, having one shared wall.
Meaning
Of a house: joined to another one on one side, having one shared wall.
More Meanings
- Such a house.
Example Sentences
In the smaller plans of a "Mansionette near Wimbledon Park," "Semi-detached Houses," and "The Compact House built near Blackheath," we are not favoured with any scale.
The murderer should be a little man of the professional class — a dentist or a solicitor, say — living an intensely respectable life somewhere in the suburbs, and preferably in a semi-detached house, which will allow the neighbours to hear suspicious sounds through the wall.
Word Forms
- semi-detacheds
Synonyms for semi-detached
Depending on context, synonyms include duplex, semi.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include twinned, semidetached, semiattached, semi-attached, attached, duplex.
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