terrace

Meanings

Plural: terraces

Noun

• usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence
• a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
• a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face)
  • "Grosvenor Terrace"
• A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment
• A platform that extends outwards from a building.
• 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.
• A step-like landform; (sometimes) remnants of floodplains.
• A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
• A street with such a group of houses in it.
• A single house in such a group.
• The standing area of a sports stadium.
• 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.
• A champagne, (an ordinary occupying) the base of the shield.

Verb

• provide (a house) with a terrace
• make into terraces as for cultivation
  • "The Incas terraced their mountainous land"
• To provide something with a terrace.
• To form something into a terrace.

Synonyms

bench, patio, terraced house, terracing, terrasse

Related Words

patio, terra, terracotta, terrain, terrene, terrestrial, terrier, territorial, territory