terrace

Definition

  • noun: a flat area created on the side of a hill and used especially for growing crops
  • noun: a colonnaded porch or promenade
  • verb: to provide (as a building or hillside) with a terrace

Examples

  • For sale: large three-bedroom house with adjoining 'terrace' and garden.

  • rice growing in/on hillside 'terraces'

  • a 'terraced' hillside

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Oh, Rhett. Rhett, you are good to me. And can we still have our big new house in Atlanta? Yes, and it can be as ornate as you want... ...marbled terraces, stained-glass windows and all. Rhett, won't everyone be jealous? I want everybody who's been mean to me to be pea-green with envy. (..)
    1939 Gone with the Wind