1. A porch or walkway bordered by colonnades.
2. A platform extending outdoors from a floor of a house or apartment building.
3. an open, often paved area adjacent to a house serving as an outdoor living space; a patio.
4. A raised bank of earth having vertical or sloping sides and a flat top: turning a hillside into a series of ascending terraces for farming.
5. A flat, narrow stretch of ground, often having a steep slope facing a river, lake, or sea.
6. A row of buildings erected on raised ground or on a sloping site.
7. A section of row houses.
8. A residential street, especially on a slope or hill.
9. A narrow strip of landscaped earth in the middle of a street.
10. Chiefly Upper Northern & Midwestern U.S. See parking. See Regional Note at parking.
11. to provide (a house, for example) with a terrace or terraces.
12. to form (a hillside or sloping lawn, for example) into terraces.

1. A platform that extends outwards from a building.
2. 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.
3. A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
4. the standing area at a football ground.
5. 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.
6. to provide something with a terrace.
7. to form something into a terrace.

1. A raised level space, shelf, or platform of earth, supported on one or more sides by a wall, a bank of tuft, or the like, whether designed for use or pleasure.
2. A balcony, especially a large and uncovered one.
3. A flat roof to a house.
4. A street, or a row of houses, on a bank or the side of a hill; hence, any street, or row of houses.
5. A level plain, usually with a steep front, bordering a river, a lake, or sometimes the sea.
6. to form into a terrace or terraces; to furnish with a terrace or terraces, .

1. to form into a terrace; furnish with a terrace.
2. A raised level faced with masonry or turf; an elevated flat space: as, a garden terrace; also, a natural formation of the ground resembling such a terrace.
3. in geology, a strip of land, nearly level, extending along the margin of the sea, a lake. or a river, and terminating on the side toward the water in a more or less abrupt descent: a beach; a raised beach. also called in scotland a carse, and in parts of the united states where spanish was formerly spoken a mesa, or meseta.
4. A street or row of houses running along the face or top of a slope: often applied arbitrarily, as a fancy name, to ordinary streets or ranges of houses.
5. the flat roof of a house, as of oriental and spanish houses.
6. A balcony, or open gallery.
7. in marble-working, a defective spot in marble, which, after being cleaned out, is filled with some artificial preparation. also terrasse.
8. A variety of mortar used for pargeting and the like, and for lining kilns for pottery.

1. a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
2. make into terraces as for cultivation
3. usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence
4. provide (a house) with a terrace
5. a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face)