row house

See also: rowhouse and row-house

English

Alternative forms

• rowhouse, row-house

Etymology

From row +‎ house.

Noun

row house (plural row houses)

1. (chiefly US) 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.

   • 1990 August 18, Liz Galst, “The Boston Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Continues”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 6, page 9:

     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.

Translations

rowhouse — see rowhouse

See also

• terraced house (Australia, UK)
• terrace