semidetached

American  

[sem-ee-di-tacht, sem-ahy-] / ˌsɛm i dɪˈtætʃt, ˌsɛm aɪ- /

adjective

1. partly detached.

2. of or relating to a house joined by a party wall to another house or row of houses.

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semidetached British  

/ ˌsɛmɪdɪˈtætʃt /

adjective

1. 1. (of a building) joined to another on one side by a common wall

   2. ( as noun )

      they live in a suburban semidetached

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Other Word Forms

• semidetachment
  noun

Etymology

Origin of semidetached

First recorded in 1855–60; semi- + detached

Example Sentences

We’re in our 50s and will probably get $1 million for our four-bedroom semidetached townhouse, and have our sights set on a $1.6 million house that has “great bones” but needs a lot of work.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 21, 2026

The proposal would also allow for semidetached houses and sets of up to three townhouses that face the street.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

The fablelike movie describes a life spent indoors, with a droll, semidetached tone that makes it easy to overlook the plot holes.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2022

She is a poet of steel shavings, of semidetached feeling, of unexpected links and impieties and unpropitious implications.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2020

She speaks with nostalgia of the years her family had spent in England, living at first in London, which she barely remembers, and then in a brick semidetached house in Croydon, with rosebushes in front.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri