adjective · neutral
terraced
/ˈterəst/TER·aced
Band 5-6speakingtask2
Joined together in a row of similar houses that share side walls.
Examples
“Most houses in that area are terraced, so parking can be difficult.”
“She grew up on a street of old terraced houses.”
“Terraced housing is common in older urban neighbourhoods.”
Band 8 sentence
“The Victorian terraced houses on my street give the area a distinctive historic character.”
Collocations
- terraced house
- row of terraced houses
Word family
terrace nounterracing noun
Common mistakes
All the houses in my street are attached.→All the houses in my street are terraced.
They live in a terrace house.→They live in a terraced house.
Say it for a higher band
5attached→6row house→7+terraced
Synonyms
row house
Easily confused
row house
“The neighbourhood is full of row houses built in the 1920s.”
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