terrace

Meanings

Noun

• 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 step-like landform; (sometimes) remnants of floodplains.
• A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
• A single house in such a group.
• The standing area of a sports stadium.
• 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.

Verb

• To provide something with a terrace.
• To form something into a terrace.

Related

Similar words

• terrasse

Origin

• Borrowed from French terrasse, from Old Occitan terrassa, from terra. terrasse.