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
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
Our first suggestion is to allow vertical stacking of row house and town house dwellings.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2022
The home was a large, three-story, five-bedroom row house with a jagged gray brick facade.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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