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/ ˈtɛr əs / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun a raised level with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf, or the like, especially one of a series of levels rising one above another.
the top of such a construction, used as a platform, garden, road, etc.
a nearly level strip of land with a more or less abrupt descent along the margin of the sea, a lake, or a river.
the flat roof of a house.
an open, often paved area connected to a house or an apartment house and serving as an outdoor living area; deck.
an open platform, as projecting from the outside wall of an apartment; a large balcony.
a row of houses on or near the top of a slope.
a residential street following the top of a slope.
SEE MORE SEE LESS verb (used with or without object), ter·raced, ter·rac·ing. to form into or furnish with a terrace or terraces.
Origin of terrace 1505–15; earlier
terrasse <Middle French <Old Provençal
terrassa <Vulgar Latin
*terrācea, feminine of
*terrāceus. See terra, -aceous
OTHER WORDS FROM terrace ter·race·less, adjective un·ter·raced, adjective Words nearby terrace Terpsichore, terpsichorean, terr., terra, terra alba, terrace , terraced house, terrachlor, terracing, terracotta, terra firma
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Example sentences from the Web for terrace Because the terrace s are open on all sides, they allow air to flow across them naturally.
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They could do what one guy did and run a marathon on his terrace during lockdown.
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“They would bring them to the terrace and say, ‘You pay or you are his next meal,’” Trapuzzano explains.
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The apartment is quarantined but a terrace door was left open so the dog could go outside “to do his business.”
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On a New York terrace , there is a dinner dance one balmy summer evening.
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We began to slink outside, tentatively crossing the terrace .
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“I realized that language was out of their realm, and the only reason that they sign was to obtain various rewards,” said Terrace .
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On the terrace beyond several children were playing, while before him, for many a mile, lay his own broad lands.
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The stars were shining when we came out on the terrace , and the waning moon still hung its crescent overhead.
From Egypt to Japan | Henry M. Field
It had not only a garden but a terrace , and this terrace overlooked the sea, the blue sunny sea of the south.
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We have the terrace walls nearly finished; and I am in hopes to lay the corner stone of the temple by the middle of May.
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There was a light in the drawing-room that opened upon the terrace , which Batiscombe had not noticed before.
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British Dictionary definitions for terrace noun a horizontal flat area of ground, often one of a series in a slope
a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls, or the street onto which they face (cap when part of a street name ) Grosvenor Terrace a paved area alongside a building, serving partly as a garden
a balcony or patio
the flat roof of a house built in a Spanish or Oriental style
a flat area bounded by a short steep slope formed by the down-cutting of a river or by erosion
(usually plural) unroofed tiers around a football pitch on which the spectators stand the spectators themselves SEE MORE SEE LESS verb (tr) to make into or provide with a terrace or terraces
Derived forms of terrace terraceless , adjective Word Origin for terrace C16: from Old French terrasse, from Old Provençal terrassa pile of earth, from terra earth, from Latin
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Words related to terrace deck, porch, roof, promenade, platform, gallery, patio, balcony, esplanade, bank, portico
Medical definitions for terrace v. To suture in several rows, as when closing a wound through a considerable thickness of tissue.
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