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mid-terrace

mid-terrace noun: a terraced house sharing side walls with others on both sides.

Noun

mid-terrace (plural mid-terraces)

  1. (UK) A terraced house sharing side walls with others on both sides.
    • They pooled the considerable sums and added another huge mortgage, this time based on two substantial incomes, and bought, at the start of the 1980s, the elegant, tall mid-terrace in Canonbury they still owned […]2011, Philip Spires, Mission
    • So they still weren't really speaking when they found themselves at their destination for the evening – a Victorian mid-terrace on three floors almost identical to their own – and suddenly obliged to affect looks of anticipation and pleasure.2016, Jonathan Dodds, A Spell in Winter

Forms of mid-terrace

pluralmid-terraces

Origin of mid-terrace

From mid- + terrace.

Questions about mid-terrace

What does mid-terrace mean?
Mid-terrace means a terraced house sharing side walls with others on both sides.
What part of speech is mid-terrace?
Mid-terrace is a noun.
What is the plural of mid-terrace?
The plural of mid-terrace is mid-terraces.

Words near mid-terrace in the dictionary

  1. mid-tempos
  2. mid-term
  3. mid-term break
  4. mid-term breaks
  5. mid-terms
  6. mid-terrace
  7. mid-terraces
  8. mid-tier
  9. mid-top fade
  10. mid-track
  11. mid-twentieth

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