Definition of "terrace"

terrace

/ˈtɛɹəs/

noun
plural terraces
1. A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment
2. A platform that extends outwards from a building.
  Quotations
  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, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, page 9
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.
  Quotations
  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.
  Quotations
  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 September 16, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, DigiCat
verb
third-person singular simple present terraces, present participle terracing, simple past and past participle terraced
1. To provide something with a terrace.
2. To form something into a terrace.