row house
noun
ˈrō- 
variants or less commonly rowhouse
ˈrō-ˌhau̇s
: one of a series of houses connected by common sidewalls and forming a continuous group
Fundamentally, a row house is a building that stands cheek by jowl with its neighbors, often sharing a common wall.
Eric Wybenga
Eric Wybenga
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Officials said there were at least four smoke detectors installed in the row house, but none were working when the fire broke out at the three-floor building in the Fairmount neighborhood around 6:40 a.m. NBC News, 13 Jan. 2022 Bannon, the former chairman of the conservative news outlet Breitbart News who served during Trump's early months in the White House, has lived in the row house on A Street NE for several years. Arkansas Online, 10 July 2022 The first blaze was in Philadelphia, on both floors of a two-story row house. Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2022 But this elegant performer, who has played queens, looks completely at home as a cleaning woman to the wealthy who lives in a run-down brick row house in industrial Newcastle. Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Apr. 2022 Twelve people, including eight children, were killed in a row house fire in early January. NBC News, 24 Apr. 2022 People walk by a brick row house (on the corner) owned by the Chinatown Community Land Trust on Feb. 9, 2022, in Boston. Alexander Thompson And Jocelyn Yang, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2022 Mourners embrace during funeral services Monday at Temple University in Philadelphia for the victims of a row house fire early this month. NBC News, 17 Jan. 2022 Within days of each other, the fire in a Bronx building killed at least 17 people, including several Gambian immigrants, and another in a Philadelphia row house killed a dozen. NBC News, 13 Jan. 2022 See More
NBC News, 13 Jan. 2022 Bannon, the former chairman of the conservative news outlet Breitbart News who served during Trump's early months in the White House, has lived in the row house on A Street NE for several years. Arkansas Online, 10 July 2022 The first blaze was in Philadelphia, on both floors of a two-story row house. Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2022 But this elegant performer, who has played queens, looks completely at home as a cleaning woman to the wealthy who lives in a run-down brick row house in industrial Newcastle. Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Apr. 2022 Twelve people, including eight children, were killed in a row house fire in early January. NBC News, 24 Apr. 2022 People walk by a brick row house (on the corner) owned by the Chinatown Community Land Trust on Feb. 9, 2022, in Boston. Alexander Thompson And Jocelyn Yang, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2022 Mourners embrace during funeral services Monday at Temple University in Philadelphia for the victims of a row house fire early this month. NBC News, 17 Jan. 2022 Within days of each other, the fire in a Bronx building killed at least 17 people, including several Gambian immigrants, and another in a Philadelphia row house killed a dozen. NBC News, 13 Jan. 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1871, in the meaning defined above