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row house en · NOUN

Etymology

From row + house.

Meanings

1. (US) A variety of residential building where the individual houses lining a street share adjacent walls in common and have a continuous stretch of roof
   • When we meet Jess in the early '50s she's seven, living in a row house crammed against other row houses in a working-class Lancaster, all packed in against the steep hills that populate the English Northwest. 1990 August 18, Liz Galst, “The Boston Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Continues”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 6, page 9:
   • The walls in Eduardo's row house were so thin he could hear the neighbors two houses down.

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Relateds

terraced house · terrace