terrace

Etymology

Borrowed from French terrasse, from Old Occitan terrassa, from terra (“land”). Doublet of terrasse.

noun

1. A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment
2. A platform that extends outwards from a building.
3. (agriculture) 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.
4. (geology) A step-like landform; (sometimes) remnants of floodplains.
5. A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
6. (UK, informal) A single house in such a group.
   The cameraman's pace slowed down as he approached what his mind said was where Sian lived. Like all the other houses in the street, it was a Victorian terrace with a postage stamp of an overgrown garden between its front wall and the street. 2016, Jane Killick, Mind Power: Perceivers #4
7. (in the plural, chiefly Britain) The standing area of a sports stadium.
8. (chiefly India) The roof of a building, especially if accessible to the residents. Often used for drying laundry, sun-drying foodstuffs, exercise, or sleeping outdoors in hot weather.
9. (heraldry) A champagne, (an ordinary occupying) the base of the shield.
   VAN GENNEP uses, Or, on a terrace vert a tulip gules, slipped proper and crowned of the first; LOKE in Zealand has : Argent , on a terrace vert a tulip or, slipped and leaved proper. 1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 337
   The whole upon a terrace gules. CREST : A coronet of nobility of five pearls. MOTTO : Omnia Pro Libertate. 1966, The Armorial who is who
   267); "Argent, on a terrace vert, a cannon mounted or, supporting a Bird of Paradise proper" [Rjevski and Yeropkin]; 2022-09-16, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, DigiCat

verb

1. To provide something with a terrace.
2. To form something into a terrace.