semi-detached en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sēmi Latin sēmi-bor. English semi- English detached English semi-detached From semi- + detached.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of a house: joined to another one on one side, having one shared wall.
In the smaller plans of a "Mansionette near Wimbledon Park," "Semi-detached Houses," and "The Compact House built near Blackheath," we are not favoured with any scale.
1860 July 14, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 80:The murderer should be a little man of the professional class — a dentist or a solicitor, say — living an intensely respectable life somewhere in the suburbs, and preferably in a semi-detached house, which will allow the neighbours to hear suspicious sounds through the wall.
1946, George Orwell, Decline of the English Murder:
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Translations (7)
it bifamiliare (having one wall shared) · fr jumelée (having one wall shared) · pt geminado (having one wall shared) · pl bliźniaczy (having one wall shared) · fi pari- (in paritalo) (having one wall shared) · pt conjugado (having one wall shared) · de Doppel- (having one wall shared)