row house

noun

row house

noun

Etymology From row + house.

1

US A variety of residential building where the individual houses lining a street share adjacent walls in common and have a continuous stretch of roof

  • The walls in Eduardo's row house were so thin he could hear the neighbors two houses down.
  • When we meet Jess in the early '50s she's seven, living in a row house crammed against other row houses in a working-class Lancaster, all packed in against the steep hills that populate the English Northwest.1990 August 18, Liz Galst, “The Boston Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Continues”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 6, page 9:
Related terms
terraced house, terrace

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