Meanings
plural row houses · alternative rowhouse · alternative row-house
- USA 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.
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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
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna house that is one of a row of identical houses situated side by side and sharing common walls
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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row house. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/row%20house
“row house.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/row%20house. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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