A platform extending outdoors from a floor of a house or apartment building.
A row of buildings erected on raised ground or on a sloping site.
A section of row houses.
Abbr. Ter. or Terr. A residential street, especially on a slope or hill.
An open, often paved area adjacent to a house serving as an outdoor living space; a patio.
A raised bank of earth having vertical or sloping sides and a flat top: turning a hillside into a series of ascending terraces for farming.
A flat, narrow stretch of ground, often having a steep slope facing a river, lake, or sea.
A row of buildings erected on raised ground or on a sloping site.
A section of row houses.
Abbr. Ter. or Terr. A residential street, especially on a slope or hill.
A narrow strip of landscaped earth in the middle of a street.
Chiefly Upper Northern & Midwestern U.S. See parking. See Regional Note at parking.
tr.v.
ter·raced, ter·rac·ing, ter·rac·es
To provide (a house, for example) with a terrace or terraces.
To form (a hillside or sloping lawn, for example) into terraces.
[French, from Old French, from Old Provençal terrassa, from Vulgar Latin *terrācea, feminine of *terrāceus, earthen, from Latin terra, earth; see ters- in Indo-European roots.]
(těr'ĭs) 
