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semiattached

semiattached adjective: attached on one side; sharing a wall with a neighboring residential building.

Adjective

semiattached (not comparable)

  1. Attached on one side; sharing a wall with a neighboring residential building.
    • A tidy New England -style enclave of 1,173 people on the cusp of Queens, the village is just a few blocks but a less congested world away from their semiattached house in Bellerose Terrace, a more middle-class unincorporated hamlet, also in Hempstead.2009 February 8, Marcelle S. Fischler, “Hidden Away Next to Everything”, in New York Times
  2. Partially bound by affection or interest.

Origin of semiattached

From semi- + attached.

Questions about semiattached

What does semiattached mean?
Semiattached means attached on one side; sharing a wall with a neighboring residential building.
What part of speech is semiattached?
Semiattached is an adjective.

Words near semiattached in the dictionary

  1. semiartificial
  2. semiartinian
  3. semiasphaltic
  4. semiatheist
  5. semiatheists
  6. semiattached
  7. semiaudible
  8. semiauthoritarian
  9. semiauto
  10. semiautobiographical
  11. semiautobiographically

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