Terrace

German Meaning

Terrasse

Geländestufe

Flachdach

Stufe

stufen

abstufen

English Meaning

  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.

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