Townhouse
//ˈtaʊnˌhaʊs// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A row house or terraced house. Australia, Canada, Philippines, US
- 2 A house in an urban setting.
- 3 A town hall. dated
Example
More examples"In high school, my gang included the mulatto Jamaican Graeme, the intellectual Russian-Scot Kenneth, the Hokkien-speaking Chinese-Filipino Philip, and myself. We often ate lunch together. We played video games and computer games. Our favourite board game was Risk, whose objective was land conquest. Graeme lived in a townhouse complex with a nice swimming pool, in which we swam."
Etymology
From town + house. Compare Dutch tuinhuis (“summer house, cabana”), tuinhuisje (“bower”).
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