1. Usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence
   "They enjoyed their morning coffee on the sunny terrace";
   - patio
    
2. A level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
   "The vineyard was planted on terraces cut into the hillside";
   - bench
    
3. [Brit] A row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face)
   "Grosvenor Terrace"

1. Make into terraces as for cultivation
   "The Incas terraced their mountainous land"
    
2. (architecture) provide (a house) with a terrace
   "We terraced the country house"

Derived forms: terraces, terracing, terraced

Type of: area, form, furnish, offer, plateau, provide, render, row, shape, supply, tableland

Part of: garden

Encyclopedia: Terrace, Utah