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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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terrane
English
Etymology
Variant form of terrain.
Noun
terrane (plural terranes)
- (geology) A block of the Earth's crust that differs from the surrounding material, and is separated from it by faults.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 195:
- The mountain belt came together as an accretion of terranes.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 195:
See also
- terrain
Anagrams
- Arrente
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