terrace
terrace is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as verb, transitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A raised level space, shelf, or platform of earth, supported on one or more sides by a wall, a bank of tuft, or the like, whether designed for use or pleasure. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- verb. A raised level space, shelf, or platform of earth, supported on one or more sides by a wall, a bank of tuft, or the like, whether designed for use or pleasure.
- verb. A balcony, especially a large and uncovered one.
- verb. A flat roof to a house; as, the buildings of the Oriental nations are covered with terraces.
- verb. A street, or a row of houses, on a bank or the side of a hill; hence, any street, or row of houses.
- verb. A level plain, usually with a steep front, bordering a river, a lake, or sometimes the sea.
- transitive verb. To form into a terrace or terraces; to furnish with a terrace or terraces, as, to terrace a garden, or a building.
- noun. usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence
- noun. a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face)
"Grosvenor Terrace"
- noun. a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
- verb. make into terraces as for cultivation
"The Incas terraced their mountainous land"
- verb. provide (a house) with a terrace
"We terrassed the country house"
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in terrace:
Common word forms
terraced, terracer, terraces, terracing, terraceous, terraceless
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