terrace

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   make into terraces as for cultivation

   The Incas terraced their mountainous land

2. 2
   noun

   A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment

   On a broad ledge near the top, we found a stone cabin. Higher up was a cistern and a few more terraces.

3. 3
   noun

   A platform that extends outwards from a building.

   They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

4. 4
   noun

   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.

   All the buildings were well kept and there were terraces everywhere, most of them full of growing things.

5. 5
   noun

   A single house in such a group.

   The cameraman's pace slowed down as he approached what his mind said was where Sian lived. Like all the other houses in the street, it was a Victorian terrace with a postage stamp of an overgrown garden between its front wall and the street.

6. 6
   noun

   A champagne, (an ordinary occupying) the base of the shield.

   VAN GENNEP uses, Or, on a terrace vert a tulip gules, slipped proper and crowned of the first; LOKE in Zealand has : Argent , on a terrace vert a tulip or, slipped and leaved proper.

7. 7
   noun

   usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence

8. 8
   noun

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

Etymology

Borrowed from French terrasse, from Old Occitan terrassa, from terra (“land”). Doublet of terrasse.