row house

noun

Etymology

From row + house.

  1. inherited from husen
  2. derived from *(s)kews-
  3. inherited from *hūsą — “house
  4. inherited from *hūs
  5. inherited from hūs — “dwelling, shelter, house
  6. inherited from hous
  7. compounded as row house — “row + house

Definitions

  1. A variety of residential building where the individual houses lining a street share…

    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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA