terraced house

noun

British
: a house in a row of houses that shares a wall with the houses next to it

Examples of terraced house in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web He was born in a terraced house in Garston, a district on the eastern shore of the Mersey referred to, Sloane says, as Garston under the Bridge, opposite the docks. Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 22 July 2024 Shetty did not grow up in poverty, but his terraced house in suburban London looked nothing like his modernist aerie or this Cape Cod-style mansion. Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2023 Ronald Geoffrey Gittins was born in 1939, the middle child between two sisters, and grew up in a small terraced house that was later destroyed as part of Liverpool’s slum clearances. Max Olesker, Longreads, 13 July 2023

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“Terraced house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terraced%20house. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.

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