Meaning & use
terrace
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a flat, raised area of ground next to a building, or one of a series of level platforms cut into a slope
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They had coffee on the terrace overlooking the garden.
Farmers carved terraces into the hillside to grow rice.
A note on using this word
In British English, 'terrace' can also mean a row of houses joined together by shared walls; in agriculture, terraces are step-like platforms used to farm steep land.
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