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terrace

[ter-uhs]

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noun

a raised level with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf, or the like, especially one of a series of levels rising one above another.

the top of such a construction, used as a platform, garden, road, etc.

a nearly level strip of land with a more or less abrupt descent along the margin of the sea, a lake, or a river.

the flat roof of a house.

an open, often paved area connected to a house or an apartment house and serving as an outdoor living area; deck.

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an open platform, as projecting from the outside wall of an apartment; a large balcony.

a row of houses on or near the top of a slope.

a residential street following the top of a slope.

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verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

to form into or furnish with a terrace or terraces.

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Origin:
1505–15; earlier terrasse < Middle French < Old Provençal terrassa < Vulgar Latin *terrācea, feminine of *terrāceus. See terra, -aceous

Related forms

ter·race·less, adjective

un·ter·raced, adjective

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Example Sentences

It is also a voice that can be as rude and crude as that of any football fan on the terrace.

Formal wood-panel interior and more casual garden terrace.

The glistening celadon green urn creates a cool, eye-catching fountain on a rear terrace.

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It is also a voice that can be as rude and crude as that of any football fan on the terrace.

Formal wood-panel interior and more casual garden terrace.

The glistening celadon green urn creates a cool, eye-catching fountain on a rear terrace.

Each terrace is roughly sixty feet wide and dead level.

The garden terrace looks out onto a lush wooded area where birds chirp in the trees.

Each of the third-floor guest rooms has a private terrace.

Make an individual terrace for each plant and create a basin or low spot behind each one to catch water.

Entrance to the garden is free, as is access to the roof-top terrace with its stunning view.

Sit inside at angular stainless steel tables, or outside on a shady terrace.

Curving flagstones lead to a dining terrace tucked into a sloped garden.

Breakfast and lunch are served on a charming terrace.

Lalibelans rarely terrace the hillsides, a system that farmers in other parts of the mountainous north use to reduce erosion.

At night, a high-energy bar and palm terrace make it a great place to meet up with friends.

Cambalache then display these offerings jumble-sale style on a terrace of the mint.

Each house had rooms for receiving guests and for sitting and sleeping, a kitchen, and a shaded roof terrace.

Alpine plants help make a roof terrace into its own small realm.

The unlikely guests spend the night on the terrace level in a service corridor.

There is major construction on the exterior of the building, making the terrace impossible to use.

The terrace lures the rich and famous be-neath a bougainvillea-laden trellis.

At last they gained a broad terrace where dams formed by thin stone ridges sectioned off dry pools.

Dinner is especially nice al fresco on the terrace when the night air is cool.

Celebs have been known to haunt the terrace in the early morning hours for secret trysts, and frankly, you should do the same.

He leads the way out to a terrace with a view of the deep, bowl-shaped valley carpeted with thick pine forests.

When it arrived, he had taken it out on his terrace so he could be photographed holding it.

Drawing room, bar, south-facing conservatory restaurant with terrace for al fresco dining.

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World English Dictionary

terrace (ˈtɛrəs)

—n
1.	a horizontal flat area of ground, often one of a series in a slope
2.	a. a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls, or the street onto which they face
	b. (cap when part of a street name): Grosvenor Terrace
3.	a paved area alongside a building, serving partly as a garden
4.	a balcony or patio
5.	the flat roof of a house built in a Spanish or Oriental style
6.	a flat area bounded by a short steep slope formed by the down-cutting of a river or by erosion
7.	(usually plural)
	a. unroofed tiers around a football pitch on which the spectators stand
	b. the spectators themselves

—vb
8.	(tr) to make into or provide with a terrace or terraces

[C16: from Old French terrasse, from Old Provençal terrassa pile of earth, from terra earth, from Latin]

'terraceless

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

terrace

1515, "gallery, portico, balcony," later "flat, raised place for walking" (1575), from M.Fr. terrace, from O.Fr. terrasse "platform (built on or supported by a mound of earth)," from V.L. *terracea, fem. of *terraceus "earthen, earthy," from L. terra "earth, land" (see

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terrain). As a natural formation in geology, attested from 1674.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

terrace ter·race (těr'ĭs)
v. ter·raced, ter·rac·ing, ter·rac·es
To suture in several rows, as when closing a wound through a considerable thickness of tissue.

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