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ter·race
(tĕr′ĭs)n.
1.
a. A porch or walkway bordered by colonnades.
b. A platform extending outdoors from a floor of a house or apartment building.
2. An open, often paved area adjacent to a house serving as an outdoor living space; a patio.
3. A raised bank of earth having vertical or sloping sides and a flat top: turning a hillside into a series of ascending terraces for farming.
4. A flat, narrow stretch of ground, often having a steep slope facing a river, lake, or sea.
5.
a. A row of buildings erected on raised ground or on a sloping site.
b. A section of row houses.
c. Abbr. Ter. or Terr. A residential street, especially along the top or slope of a hill.
6. A narrow strip of landscaped earth in the middle of a street.
tr.v. ter·raced, ter·rac·ing, ter·rac·es
1. To provide (a house, for example) with a terrace or terraces.
2. To form (a hillside or sloping lawn, for example) into terraces.
[French, from Old French, from Old Provençal terrassa, from Vulgar Latin *terrācea, feminine of *terrāceus, earthen, from Latin terra, earth; see ters- in Indo-European roots.]
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terraced
(ˈtɛrəst)adj
1. having horizontal flat areas of ground
2. (Building) Brit (of a street) having a row of usually identical houses with common dividing walls
3. (Building) Brit (of a property) being one of a row of usually identical houses with common dividing walls
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Translations
stupňovitý
terrasseret
rivi-
nanizan
テラスを設けた
계단식의
terrasserad
ทำให้ลดหลั่นเป็นชั้น
theo dãy
terraced
[ˈterəst] ADJ (= layered) [hillside, garden] → en terrazas, terraplenado; (= in a row) [house, cottage] → adosadoterraced gardens → jardines mpl formando terrazas, jardines mpl colgantes
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
terraced
[ˈtɛrəst] adj [garden] → en terrasses; [hillside] → en terrassesterrace house terraced house n (British) → maison f mitoyenne (faisant partie d'une rangée de maisons identiques)
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
terraced
adj
hillside etc → terrassenförmig or stufenförmig angelegt; garden → in Terrassen angelegt
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
terraced
[ˈtɛrɪst] adj (layered, hillside, garden) → terrazzato/a, a terrazze; (in a row, house, cottage) → a schieraCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
terraced
→ مُزَوَّدٌ بِشُرْفَة stupňovitý terrasseret terrassenförmig με πεζούλι adosado en hilera, en bancales rivi- en terrasses nanizan a schiera テラスを設けた 계단식의 van terrassen voorzien terrasseformet w zabudowie szeregowej escalonado, ladeado террасированный terrasserad ทำให้ลดหลั่นเป็นชั้น sıra evler theo dãy 梯状的Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009