terrace

noun terraces

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. A step-like landform; (sometimes) remnants of floodplains.
5. A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
6. A street with such a group of houses in it.
7. UK, informal 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.

   Similar: terraced house

8. UK, in plural The standing area of a sports stadium.

   Similar: terracing

9. India 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.
10. 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.

Similar: terrasse

verb terraces · terracing · terraced

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

proper noun

1. A city in the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine, British Columbia, Canada.
2. A ghost town in Box Elder County, Utah, United States.