Definitions for terraces

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terraces ter·race

Spelling: [ter-uh s]

IPA: /ˈtɛr əs/

Terraces is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 303 anagrams from letters in terraces (aceerrst).

Definitions for terraces

noun

1. a raised level with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf, or the like, especially one of a series of levels rising one above another.
2. the top of such a construction, used as a platform, garden, road, etc.
3. a nearly level strip of land with a more or less abrupt descent along the margin of the sea, a lake, or a river.
4. the flat roof of a house.
5. an open, often paved area connected to a house or an apartment house and serving as an outdoor living area; deck.
6. an open platform, as projecting from the outside wall of an apartment; a large balcony.
7. a row of houses on or near the top of a slope.
8. a residential street following the top of a slope.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to form into or furnish with a terrace or terraces.

Origin of terraces

1505-15; earlier terrasse Middle French Old Provençal terrassa Vulgar Latin *terrācea, feminine of *terrāceus. See terra, -aceous

Examples for terraces

Watch them addressing ladies on the terrace: they scarcely ever bow.

You threw yourself at his head, you know you did, from Shepheard's terrace.

The apartment is quarantined but a terrace door was left open so the dog could go outside “to do his business.”

Below, on the terrace, Viviette was walking, and she filled his universe.

He flung out of the room on to the terrace and strode away in a rage.

“They would bring them to the terrace and say, ‘You pay or you are his next meal,’” Trapuzzano explains.

There was the out-of-doors breakfast party, too, on the terrace at Shepheard's.

“I realized that language was out of their realm, and the only reason that they sign was to obtain various rewards,” said terrace.

We began to slink outside, tentatively crossing the terrace.

On a New York terrace, there is a dinner dance one balmy summer evening.