row house

American

[roh] / roʊ /

noun

one of a row of houses having uniform, or nearly uniform, plans and fenestration and usually having a uniform architectural treatment, as in certain housing developments.
a house having at least one side wall in common with a neighboring dwelling.

row house British

/ rəʊ /

noun

Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): terraced house. a house that is part of a terrace

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Etymology

Origin of row house

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

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We could trade our skinny row house for someplace in the suburbs with plenty of bathrooms, a home office, and a big garage.

From Literature

Pittsburgh is a city of some 90 hilly neighborhoods, where the front doors of row houses open to the sidewalk, brick houses have porches but no garages, and street parking is often the rule.

From The Wall Street Journal

We pass a long line of terraced row houses.

From Literature

More somber is the 1964 scene in “Philadelphia,” of a row house door whose window displays a portrait of John F. Kennedy, assassinated just a year before.

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s a tiny corner bar in a gritty South Philadelphia neighborhood, a hangout no bigger than the row houses that surround it.

From Los Angeles Times

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