row house

noun

variants or less commonly rowhouse
: one of a series of houses connected by common sidewalls and forming a continuous group
Fundamentally, a row house is a building that stands cheek by jowl with its neighbors, often sharing a common wall.Eric Wybenga

Examples of row house in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Before the dot-com boom, the neighborhoods of Alamo Square and Hayes Valley, with their pastel Victorian row houses, were associated with staid domesticity. Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024 On a narrow North Philadelphia street lined with row houses and a busy auto body shop, Marsella Elie climbs the front steps of a private residence and knocks hard on the front door. Nicole Leonard | Whyy, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024 It's got a mixture of mansions, row houses, and high rises, and is among the richest urban neighborhoods in America. Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2024 Set amid the Victorian row houses on trendy Bree Street, the boutique, cofounded by Salik Harris in 2022, doubles as a social club for locals, who linger at the shop's café and rifle through racks of oversized jackets and denim. Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Feb. 2024 The city says the architectural style is unique to the county and was modeled after the row houses of Philadelphia and other Eastern cities. U-T Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024 Suggs, who is twenty-five, lives with her father and grandmother in a row house in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023 The Cabrini-Green homes, a group of towering apartment buildings and row houses, were built in 1942 to house World War II veterans. Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2023 On that life-altering Tuesday, a blue-collar couple from Queens returned from church to their modest Astoria row house and found their daughter and son-in-law had prepared a special brunch to celebrate their 22nd wedding anniversary. Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1871, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of row house was in 1871

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“Row house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/row%20house. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

row house

noun
: any of a row of houses connected by common sidewalls

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