terrace :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

Nouns (2)

n. usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence

n. a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)

Verbs (2)

v. make into terraces as for cultivation; "The Incas terraced their mountainous land"

v. provide (a house) with a terrace; "We terrassed the country house"

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Fuzzynyms (24)

n. the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard"

n. a room in which a lawcourt sits; "television cameras were admitted in the courtroom"

n. an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings; "the house was built around an inner court"

n. a porch that resembles the deck on a ship

n. a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance

n. a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)

n. an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium

n. a field of cultivated and mowed grass

n. a public square with room for pedestrians; "they met at Elm Plaza"; "Grosvenor Place"

n. a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation; "a bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch"

n. a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection

n. a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force

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