townhouse
(taʊnhaʊs) also town house
Word forms: town houses
1. countable noun
A town house is a tall narrow house in a town or city, usually in a row of similar houses which are connected together.
2. countable noun [with poss]
The town house of a wealthy person is the house that they own in a town or city, rather than another house that they own in the country.
townhouse in British English
(ˈtaʊnˌhaʊs)
noun
1.
a terraced house in an urban area, esp a fashionable one, often having the main living room on the first floor with an integral garage on the ground floor
2.
a person's town residence as distinct from his or her country residence
3. another name (now chiefly Scot) for town hall
4. Also called: row house or (chiefly Brit) terraced house US and Canadian
a house that is part of a terrace
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Examples of 'townhouse' in a sentencetownhouse
- when one's ship comes in
- when (or if, etc.) one's ship comes in (or home)
- when pigs fly
- when push comes to shove
- when she had dressed, she went downstairs
- whenso'er
- whensoever
- when someone's ship comes in
- when the balloon goes up
- when the cat's away, the mice will play
- when the chips are down
- when-the-chips-are-down
- when the dust settles
- when the fancy takes him
- when the going gets tough
- when the shit hits the fan
- whenua
- whenwe
- when you come down to it, when it comes down to it
- when you come/it comes down to it
- when-you-come-it-comes-down-to-it
- haplostemonous
- haplotype
- haply
- ha'p'orth