terrace

plural terraces

1. A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment

   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

2. A platform that extends outwards from a building.

   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

3. agricultureA 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.

   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

4. geographyA step-like landform; (sometimes) remnants of floodplains.
5. A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
6. A street with such a group of houses in it.
7. UKinformalA 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

   Synonyms: terraced house

8. UKin pluralThe standing area of a sports stadium.

   Synonyms: terracing

9. IndiaThe 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.
10. governmentA champagne, (an ordinary occupying) the base of the shield.

    The whole upon a terrace gules. CREST : A coronet of nobility of five pearls. MOTTO : Omnia Pro Libertate.

    1966, The Armorial who is who

    2 more examples

    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

    267); "Argent, on a terrace vert, a cannon mounted or, supporting a Bird of Paradise proper" [Rjevski and Yeropkin];

    2022 September 16, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, DigiCat

present singular third person terraces · participle present terracing · participle past terraced · past terraced

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

1. A city in the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine, British Columbia, Canada.
2. A ghost town in Box Elder County, Utah, United States.