row house
Americannoun
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one of a row of houses having uniform, or nearly uniform, plans and fenestration and usually having a uniform architectural treatment, as in certain housing developments.
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a house having at least one side wall in common with a neighboring dwelling.
noun
Etymology
Origin of row house
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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In Philadelphia—where kids are down 6%—Nija Rivera, 39, grew up working class in a row house with her siblings, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
We lived in a traditional row house in a working-class neighborhood while my parents were married.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The next event I went to was during Ramadan, an iftar at a Bangladeshi community center on the basement floor of a row house in Flatbush.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2025
She was two weeks from leaving her marketing job of 17 years and about to move out of her Philadelphia row house.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2023
When I could go to the Dannenbergs’ row house where the walls are so thin that the neighbors can hear through them and would hear anything that went wrong?
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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