TERRACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does terrace mean? 

• TERRACE (noun)
  The noun TERRACE has 3 senses:

1. usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence

2. a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)

3. a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face)

  Familiarity information: TERRACE used as a noun is uncommon.

• TERRACE (verb)
  The verb TERRACE has 2 senses:

1. provide (a house) with a terrace

2. make into terraces as for cultivation

  Familiarity information: TERRACE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TERRACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

patio; terrace

Hypernyms ("terrace" is a kind of...):

area (a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "terrace"):

solar trap; suntrap (a terrace or garden oriented to take advantage of the sun while protected from cold winds)

Holonyms ("terrace" is a part of...):

garden (a yard or lawn adjoining a house)

Derivation:

terrace (provide (a house) with a terrace)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

bench; terrace

Hypernyms ("terrace" is a kind of...):

plateau; tableland (a relatively flat highland)

Derivation:

terrace (make into terraces as for cultivation)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

Grosvenor Terrace

Hypernyms ("terrace" is a kind of...):

row (an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line)

Meronyms (members of "terrace"):

terraced house (a house that is part of a terrace)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

• TERRACE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they terrace    ... he / she / it terraces   
Past simple: terraced   
Past participle: terraced   
-ing form: terracing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide (a house) with a terrace

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

terrace; terrasse

Context example:

We terrassed the country house

Hypernyms (to "terrace" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Domain category:

architecture (the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

terrace (usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make into terraces as for cultivation

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The Incas terraced their mountainous land

Hypernyms (to "terrace" is one way to...):

form; shape (give shape or form to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

terrace (a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below))

 Context examples 

The door of the study opened straight on to the terrace.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The whole place was terraced for taro-patches, fruit trees grew there, and there were eight or ten grass huts.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As I moved away from them along the terrace, I could not help observing how steadily they both sat gazing on the prospect, and how it thickened and closed around them.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“This is insufferably hot,” said Miss Crawford, when they had taken one turn on the terrace, and were drawing a second time to the door in the middle which opened to the wilderness.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

With the early dawn they found themselves in a black ravine, with others sloping away from it on either side, and the bare brown crags rising in long bleak terraces all round them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The 60,000 newly discovered structures include raised highways, urban centers with sidewalks, homes, terraces, industrial-sized agricultural fields, irrigation canals, ceremonial centers, a 30-meter high pyramid, fortresses and moats.

(Hidden Mayan Civilization Revealed in Guatemala Jungle, VOA)

I liked the great terrace best, for the view was divine, so while the rest went to see the rooms inside, I sat there trying to sketch the gray stone lion's head on the wall, with scarlet woodbine sprays hanging round it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the forecastle of an emigrant ship.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Stand with me here upon the terrace, for it may be the last quiet talk that we shall ever have.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was sitting on a seat at one end of a kind of terrace, overlooking the great city.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)