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Terrace
01
a flat paved area, particularly one next to a building or restaurant, where people can sit, eat, relax, etc.
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Composition
Simple
Countable
Plural form
terraces
Examples
They had lunch on the restaurant 's terrace.
02
a row of houses connected together due to being in one block and sharing the same style
Dialect
British
British03
a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
to terrace
01
to create stepped levels or flat areas on sloped land to prevent erosion and make the land suitable for farming or forestry
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
terrace
3rd person singular
terraces
Present participle
terracing
Past simple
terraced
Past participle
terraced
Examples
Farmers in mountainous regions often terrace their land to grow crops efficiently.
02
provide (a house) with a terrace
