semidetached
Americanadjective
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partly detached.
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of or relating to a house joined by a party wall to another house or row of houses.
adjective
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Origin of semidetached
Example Sentences
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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 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
Townhouse and semidetached house prices ranged from $455,000 for a three-bedroom, one-bathroom home to $1.365 million for a five-bedroom, four-bathroom home.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 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
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