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row house

row house noun: a variety of residential building where the individual houses lining a street share adjacent walls in common and have a continuous stretch of roof.

Noun

row house (plural row houses)

  1. (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.
    • 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.1990 August 18, Liz Galst, “The Boston Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Continues”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 6, page 9

Forms of row house

pluralrow houses
alternative formrowhouse
alternative formrow-house

Origin of row house

From row + house.

Questions about row house

What does row house mean?
Row house means a variety of residential building where the individual houses lining a street share adjacent walls in common and have a continuous stretch of roof.
What part of speech is row house?
Row house is a noun.
What is the plural of row house?
The plural of row house is row houses.

Words near row house in the dictionary

  1. row backs
  2. row crop
  3. row crops
  4. row echelon form
  5. row echelon forms
  6. row house
  7. row houses
  8. row in the same boat
  9. row of pins
  10. row space
  11. row spaces

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