English Dictionary

terrace

/ˈtɛɹəs/

noun

A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment / A platform that extends outwards from a building.

I love sitting on the terrace and enjoying the view.

意味（1）

A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment

意味（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.

意味（3）

(agriculture) 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.

意味（4）

(geology) A step-like landform; (sometimes) remnants of floodplains.

意味（5）

A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.

意味（6）

(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.

意味（7）

(in the plural, chiefly Britain) The standing area of a sports stadium.

意味（8）

(chiefly 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.