townhouse

US/ˈtaʊnˌhaʊs/

nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,382 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: townhouses

A townhouse is a tall narrow house in a city row. A Georgian townhouse, a three-storey townhouse, buy a townhouse.

In Britain the word suggests a period house on a terrace, and historically it meant a rich family's house in town as against their place in the country. In America a townhouse is any narrow house sharing walls with its neighbours.

Definitions of townhouse

1nountownhouseA tall narrow house in a city row.B2+
“They live in a narrow townhouse with a steep staircase and a tiny garden at the back.”

townhouse is a house.

Where it comes from

Town plus house. The older sense was the town residence of a family whose main seat was in the country.

From town + house. Compare Dutch tuinhuis (“summer house, cabana”), tuinhuisje (“bower”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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A townhouse, townhome, town house, or town home is a type of terraced housing or close-set single family homes of several stories.
Townhouse
A modern townhouse is often one with multiple floors on a small footprint.
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Machiya are traditional wooden townhouses found throughout Japan and typified in the historical capital of Kyoto.
Machiya
During the excavations, the site of the Chota townhouse was found.
Chota (Cherokee town)
Major Cherokee towns were centered around a large townhouse or council house, the site of community meetings of hundreds of people.
Chota (Cherokee town)

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