Terrace Meaning
/ˈtɛɹəs/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment
nounA platform that extends outwards from a building.
Sentence Examples
Could we have a table on the terrace?
You can only smoke on the terrace.
The terrace runs the full width of the house.
CEFR Practice Quiz
We sat on the sunny ____ to drink our coffee in the morning.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We enjoyed a delicious lunch on the outdoor ____ of the restaurant while watching the people walk by in the street today.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from French terrasse, from Old Occitan terrassa, from terra (“land”). Doublet of terrasse.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"On a broad ledge near the top, we found a stone cabin. Higher up was a cistern and a few more terraces."
— 1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 211:
"They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups."
— 1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 9:
"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 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:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
We sat on the sunny ____ to drink our coffee in the morning.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We enjoyed a delicious lunch on the outdoor ____ of the restaurant while watching the people walk by in the street today.