Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A row house, especially one designed as a single-family residence.
- noun A residence in a city, especially in contrast to a residence in the country.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A building devoted to the public used of a town; a townhall.
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- noun a
row house - noun a
house in anurban setting - noun dated
town hall
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a house that is one of a row of identical houses situated side by side and sharing common walls
Etymologies
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Examples
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If she stays, she'll have to pay about $150,000 more than the townhouse is worth.
Walking away with less Dina ElBoghdady 2010
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The townhouse is across the street from a house purchased in 2008 for $13.95 million by George H. Walker IV, chairman of asset-management firm Neuberger Berman and a member of the Bush family.
Divided House Sells for $6.64 Million Josh Barbanel 2010
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If she stays, she'll have to pay about $150,000 more than the townhouse is worth.
Walking away with less Dina ElBoghdady 2010
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A project by architects Elding Oscarson, the small townhouse is located in in Landskrona, Sweden, on a very narrow space between two buildings with a very different architecture.
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Brian Harkin for The Wall Street Journal The townhouse is outfitted with Energy Star appliances and has radiant floor heating.
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If she stays, she'll have to pay about $150,000 more than the townhouse is worth.
Walking away with less Dina ElBoghdady 2010
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If she stays, she'll have to pay about $150,000 more than the townhouse is worth.
Walking away with less Dina ElBoghdady 2010
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Mr. Schiff said the townhouse is 30% to 40% more energy efficient than a typical townhouse.
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Even though it's right downtown, the townhouse is very quiet because it's at the end of a privada.
2 Bedroom, 1.5 bath, furnished Morelia townhome for rent 2008
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The townhouse is one of the university's living and learning programs, which convert traditional residence halls into themed-based houses that meet specific student academic and lifestyle interests.
ThatsBaloneyMan commented on the word townhouse
As a town hall: "There was an astronomer, who had undertaken to place a sun-dial upon the great weathercock on the town-house, by adjusting the annual and diurnal motions of the earth and sun..." --- from Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift
June 6, 2015