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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More somber is the 1964 scene in “Philadelphia,” of a row house door whose window displays a portrait of John F. Kennedy, assassinated just a year before.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
We come to a row house with a garden filled with leafy plants growing up trellises and flowerpots on each of the steps.
From Slate • Oct. 27, 2025
Groggy and panicked, Drinks scanned the apartment for essentials, stuffed a shopping cart with clothes for his brothers and wheeled the cart up the road to his grandmother’s overcrowded row house.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 19, 2023
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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