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UK
/tˈɛɹɪs/
]
[ US /ˈtɛɹəs/ ]
[ US /ˈtɛɹəs/ ]
VERB
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make into terraces as for cultivation
The Incas terraced their mountainous land -
provide (a house) with a terrace
We terrassed the country house
NOUN
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a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face)
Grosvenor Terrace - a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
- usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence
How To Use terrace In A Sentence
- The formation of coral terraces is interpreted as the product of approximately uniform long-term uplift superimposed on eustatic changes in sea level.
- If the indoor tables don't satisfy you, and if the weather is right, do ask for a table on the terrace.
- There are six of them in total, one hundred and fifty foot tall totemic spires of Growth Bone, Calcine, and Blossom Glass, bedecked on all sides with terraces, platforms and loggias, sun-bleached and standing to attention like nine pins spilt upon the desert or deep sea hydro-thermal vents rising from unfathomed depths. Watchman: Babel Series Part One | SciFi UK Review
- _The Terrace at Berne_ has been already dealt with, but that mood for epicede, which was so frequent in Mr Arnold, finds in the _Carnac_ stanzas adequate, and in _A Southern Night_ consummate, expression. Matthew Arnold
- a neatly faced terrace
- My neighbour lived on the terrace of his building, in a single room surrounded by cotes for his pigeons.
- The property takes up the bottom two floors of a Grade II-listed Regency terrace and comes with a share of the freehold.
- The roof terrace looks down into the Grassmarket, while inside the subdued lighting and dark wooden furniture lends itself to romantic candlelit dinners.
- Floored with glass, the terrace is also a skylight shedding luminance into the building and down the stairwell.
- Behind every green hill there's another hill, with eucalyptus groves and banana trees and terraced fields of sweet potato and manioc and corn.