a terraced house

Meanings

1. 1nouncountableBritish

   A house that shares its side walls with the houses next to it in a continuous row.

   Grammar: Countable: say 'a terraced house' for one and 'terraced houses' for several.

   Patterns

   • live in a terraced house
   • a row of terraced houses

   They bought a small terraced house near the station.

   Most of the streets here are lined with terraced houses.

   A terraced house often has neighbors on both sides.

2. 2noununcountableBritish

   This type of housing as a style or category of home, common in older British towns.

   Grammar: Used without 'a' when talking about the type of housing in general.

   Patterns

   • terraced housing
   • a street of terraced housing

   The area is mostly terraced housing from the 1800s.

   Cheap terraced housing was built for factory workers.

Word forms

Common combinations

a two-bedroom terraced house

They rent a two-bedroom terraced house on the edge of town.

a row of terraced houses

A row of terraced houses runs along the canal.

an end-of-terrace house

An end-of-terrace house has windows on one side as well.

move into a terraced house

We moved into a terraced house last spring.

Synonyms and how they differ

row house

The usual American term for the same kind of home; use 'row house' in US contexts.

townhouse

Often a newer, taller house of this type, sometimes owned rather than rented; 'terraced house' suggests an older British row.

Opposites

Word family

terrace noun

A row of joined houses, or a flat outdoor area next to a building.

terraced adjective

Built as a row of joined houses, as in 'a terraced street'.

Commonly confused: a terraced house or detached house?

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