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Plural of terrace

regular plural

The plural of terrace is terraces.

Forms of terrace

Singularterrace /ˈtɛɹəs/
Pluralterraces
Countablecountable

Terraces in a sentence

  • Higher up was a cistern and a few more terraces.1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 211
  • All the buildings were well kept and there were terraces everywhere, most of them full of growing things.1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 210
  • The flight of terraces extended up fifty meters from the base.From the entry flight
  • Unlike the early-sixties Spurs team that Clark watched from the terraces, this was route-one stuff.2013 September 13, Bob Stanley, Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop, Faber & Faber, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry route-one
  • It makes me chuckle when you see the fans on the terraces, handing out dog's abuse.2009, Robbie Fowler, Fowler: My Autobiography, page 142. From the entry dog's abuse

Meaning of terrace

  1. noun A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment.
  2. noun A platform that extends outwards from a building.
  3. noun A raised, flat-topped bank of earth with sloping sides, especially one of a series for farming or leisure; a similar natural area of ground, often next to a river.

Full definition of terrace

Questions about the plural of terrace

What is the plural of terrace?
The plural of terrace is terraces.
Is terrace countable?
Terrace is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: terrace (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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