row house
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.57 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A variety of residential building where the individual houses lining a street share adjacent walls in common and have a continuous stretch of roof
American usage
Example Sentences
- "The walls in Eduardo's row house were so thin he could hear the neighbors two houses down."
- "When we meet Jess in the early '50s she's seven, living in a row house crammed against other row houses in a working-class Lancaster, all packed in against the steep hills that populate the English Northwest."
Etymology
Usage
- American usage