Terrace

/ˈtɛɹəs/ · noun

Meaning

A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment.

Definitions by Sense

1. A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment
2. A platform that extends outwards from a building.
3. (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.
4. (geology) A step-like landform; (sometimes) remnants of floodplains.
5. A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
6. A street with such a group of houses in it.
7. (UK, informal) A single house in such a group.
8. (in the plural, chiefly British) The standing area of a sports stadium.

Example Sentences

On a broad ledge near the top, we found a stone cabin. Higher up was a cistern and a few more terraces.

They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

All the buildings were well kept and there were terraces everywhere, most of them full of growing things.

The cameraman's pace slowed down as he approached what his mind said was where Sian lived. Like all the other houses in the street, it was a Victorian terrace with a postage stamp of an overgrown garden between its front wall and the street.

VAN GENNEP uses, Or, on a terrace vert a tulip gules, slipped proper and crowned of the first; LOKE in Zealand has : Argent , on a terrace vert a tulip or, slipped and leaved proper.

The whole upon a terrace gules. CREST : A coronet of nobility of five pearls. MOTTO : Omnia Pro Libertate.

267); "Argent, on a terrace vert, a cannon mounted or, supporting a Bird of Paradise proper" [Rjevski and Yeropkin];

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• terraces
• terracing
• terraced

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