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terraced house

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noun

  1. US and Canadian names: row house, town house. a house that is part of a terrace

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Our home was a compact, two-story terraced house with a back garden and a little lean-to greenhouse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

Their four-bedroom terraced house, which is up for sale, has steep steps up to the front door, a narrow hallway and an upstairs bathroom.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2025

Alexander admitted she did not have an electric vehicle herself, adding that she lived in a terraced house without a driveway.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2025

At the time of his death in 2021, Charles Haxton was living alone in a terraced house in Tooting, south London.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2025

He remembered no intervening time, no sore feet—but here he was, addressing in the politest terms an old lady who stood in the doorway of a flat-fronted terraced house.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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