1. terrace - Noun
2. terrace - Verb
4. Terrace - Proper noun
A raised level space, shelf, or platform of earth, supported on one or more sides by a wall, a bank of tuft, or the like, whether designed for use or pleasure.
A balcony, especially a large and uncovered one.
A flat roof to a house; as, the buildings of the Oriental nations are covered with terraces.
A street, or a row of houses, on a bank or the side of a hill; hence, any street, or row of houses.
A level plain, usually with a steep front, bordering a river, a lake, or sometimes the sea.
To form into a terrace or terraces; to furnish with a terrace or terraces, as, to terrace a garden, or a building.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year A handsome house to lodge a friend A river at my garden's end A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood. Jonathan Swift
And it was awfully strange, he thought, how she still had the power, as she came tinkling, rustling, still had the power as she came across the room, to make the moon, which he detested, rise at Bourton on the terrace in the summer sky. Virginia Woolf
To whom does this terrace belong? - With its limestone crumbling into fine greyish dust, Its bevy of bees, and its wind-beaten rickety sun-chairs? Not to me, but this lizard, Older than I, or the cockroach. Theodore Roethke
But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing. Cliff Richard
I prayed the monsters would give up. Or that perhaps Philip of Macedonia would climb back to the terrace (do crocodiles climb?) and renew the fight. Rick Riordan
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace. Jean Giraudoux