terrace

1 usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence [syn: patio]

2 a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below) [syn: bench]

3 a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face); "Grosvenor Terrace"

1 provide (a house) with a terrace; "We terrassed the country house" [syn: terrasse]

2 make into terraces as for cultivation; "The Incas terraced their mountainous land"

English

Pronunciation

• /ˈtɛɹəs/, /"tEr@s/

  Rhymes: -ɛrəs

Noun

1. A platform that extends outwards from a building.
2. 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.
3. A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
4. The standing area at a football ground.

Translations

Verb

1. To provide something with a terrace.
2. To form something into a terrace.

A terrace may refer to:

• Terrace (agriculture),Terrace (building), a raised flat platform
• Terrace deposit, geological term for a flat platform of land
• Terrace (gardening), an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospect
• Terraced house, a style of housing where identical individual houses are cojoined into rows
• Terrace (stadium), standing spectator areas, especially in the United Kingdom and Ireland, or the sloping portion of the outfield in a baseball stadium, not necessarily for seating, but for practical or decorative purposes
• Stream terrace, sediment from an old stream, usually in an elevated aspect relative to the current streamway
• Tone terracing in phonetics
• Terrace melodic motion in music

Proper names

• Terraces (Bahá'í), nineteen terraces that beautify the Bahá'í Faith's Shrine of the Bab on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel
• Terrace, British Columbia, a community in Canada
• Terrace Club, a Princeton University eating club
• Terrace (board game), an abstract strategy game
• St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, a School in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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