semi-detached
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Such a house.
Example Sentences
- "In the smaller plans of a "Mansionette near Wimbledon Park," "Semi-detached Houses," and "The Compact House built near Blackheath," we are not favoured with any scale."
- "The murderer should be a little man of the professional class — a dentist or a solicitor, say — living an intensely respectable life somewhere in the suburbs, and preferably in a semi-detached house, which will allow the neighbours to hear suspicious sounds through the wall."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *sēmi Latin sēmi-bor. English semi- English detached English semi-detached From semi- + detached.