terrace

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English

Borrowed from French terrasse, from Old Occitan terrassa, from terra (“land”). Doublet of terrasse.

terrace (plural terraces)

A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment
A platform that extends outwards from a building.
(agriculture) A raised, flat-topped bank of earth with sloping sides, especially one of a series for farming or leisure; a similar natural area of ground, often next to a river.
(geology) A step-like landform; (sometimes) remnants of floodplains.
Hyponyms: fluvial terrace, kame terrace, marine terrace, lacustrine terrace, structural terrace, travertine terrace
A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
A street with such a group of houses in it.
(UK, informal) A single house in such a group.
Synonym: terraced house
(in the plural, chiefly British) The standing area of a sports stadium.
Synonym: terracing
(chiefly India) The roof of a building, especially if accessible to the residents. Often used for drying laundry, sun-drying foodstuffs, exercise, or sleeping outdoors in hot weather.
(heraldry) A champagne, (an ordinary occupying) the base of the shield.

terrace (third-person singular simple present terraces, present participle terracing, simple past and past participle terraced)