terrace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɹəs/
rhymes: -ɛɹəs
Forms: form: terraces
Etymology: Borrowed from French terrasse, from Old Occitan terrassa, from terra (“land”). Doublet of terrasse.
Senses: examples: text: On a broad ledge near the top, we found a stone cabin. Higher up was a cistern and a few more terraces.
ref: 1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 211:
glosses: A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: A platform that extends outwards from a building.
examples: text: All the buildings were well kept and there were terraces everywhere, most of them full of growing things.
ref: 1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 210:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: 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.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A step-like landform; (sometimes) remnants of floodplains.
glosses: A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
glosses: A street with such a group of houses in it.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2016, Jane Killick, Mind Power: Perceivers #4:
synonyms: terraced house
glosses: A single house in such a group.
synonyms: terracing
glosses: The standing area of a sports stadium.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 337:
text: The whole upon a terrace gules. CREST : A coronet of nobility of five pearls. MOTTO : Omnia Pro Libertate.
ref: 1966, The Armorial who is who:
text: 267); "Argent, on a terrace vert, a cannon mounted or, supporting a Bird of Paradise proper" [Rjevski and Yeropkin];
ref: 2022 September 16, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, DigiCat:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A champagne, (an ordinary occupying) the base of the shield.
Synonyms: word: terrasse
Derived terms: café terrace
end of terrace
mid-terrace
Raymond Terrace
terrace chant
Related terms: terra
terracotta
terrain
terrene
terrestrial
terrier
territorial
territory
patio