TOWN HOUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does town house mean? 

• TOWN HOUSE (noun)
  The noun TOWN HOUSE has 1 sense:

1. a house that is one of a row of identical houses situated side by side and sharing common walls

  Familiarity information: TOWN HOUSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOWN HOUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A house that is one of a row of identical houses situated side by side and sharing common walls

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

row house; town house

Hypernyms ("town house" is a kind of...):

house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)

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

brownstone (a row house built of brownstone; reddish brown in color)

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

 Context examples 

A walk of a few hundred yards brought us to the high building of discoloured brick in Piccadilly, which served the Hamiltons as a town house, and which Nelson used as his head-quarters when business or pleasure called him from Merton.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)