row house

[roh]

noun

1. 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.

2. a house having at least one side wall in common with a neighboring dwelling.

row house

/ rəʊ /

noun

1. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): terraced house. a house that is part of a terrace

Word History and Origins

Origin of row house¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

It’s a tiny corner bar in a gritty South Philadelphia neighborhood, a hangout no bigger than the row houses that surround it.

From Los Angeles Times

“We're talking about something that you can see and touch. They were living examples of what could be done with Baltimore row houses.”

From BBC

The Los Angeles debut opens with an elaborate stage set that replicates façades of tidy row houses in Camden, N.J., just across the river from Philly, where the artist was born in 1971.

From Los Angeles Times

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

Until this moment, no one had paid attention to William Petersen’s neat brick row house next door to the home that had been locked tight.

From Literature