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terrace
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French terrasse, from Old Occitan terrassa, from terra (“land”). Doublet of terrasse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t???s/
- Rhymes: -???s
Noun
terrace (plural terraces)
- A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment
- A platform that extends outwards from a building.
- 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.
- A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
- (Britain, informal) A single house in such a group.
- (in the plural, chiefly Britain) The standing area at a football ground.
- (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.
Synonyms
- terrasse (Quebec)
Related terms
Translations
See also
- patio
Verb
terrace (third-person singular simple present terraces, present participle terracing, simple past and past participle terraced)
- To provide something with a terrace.
- To form something into a terrace.
Translations
Anagrams
- caterer, reacter, recrate, retrace
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terrain
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French terrain, from Latin terrenum (“land, ground”), neuter of terrenus (“consisting of earth”), from terra (“earth”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?.?re?n/
- Rhymes: -e?n
Noun
terrain (countable and uncountable, plural terrains)
- (geology) A single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks.
- An area of land or the particular features of it.
Synonyms
- ground
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- terrain in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- rantier, retrain, trainer
French
Etymology
From Old French terrain, terrein, from Vulgar Latin *terranum, from Latin terr?num.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?.???/
Noun
terrain m (plural terrains)
- ground, landscape
- field (as in soccer field)
- lot, plot, parcel
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Czech: terén
- Norwegian:
- ? Norwegian Bokmål: terreng
- ? Norwegian Nynorsk: terreng
- ? Swedish: terräng
Further reading
- “terrain” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- rentrai, ternira, trainer, traîner
Romansch
Alternative forms
- terren (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
- taragn (Sutsilvan)
- teragn (Surmiran)
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *terranum, from Latin terrenum.
Noun
terrain m (plural terrains)
- (Puter, Vallader) land, soil
- (Puter) country, land
- Synonym: (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) pajais
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