terrace – English noun declension

English noun forms of terrace

Noun: terrace
Singularterrace
Pluralterraces

Sample Sentences

  • On a broad ledge near the top, we found a stone cabin. Higher up was a cistern and a few more terraces. [1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 211:]
  • They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. [1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 9:]
  • All the buildings were well kept and there were terraces everywhere, most of them full of growing things. [1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 210:]
  • The cameraman's pace slowed down as he approached what his mind said was where Sian lived. Like all the other houses in the street, it was a Victorian terrace with a postage stamp of an overgrown garden between its front wall and the street. [2016, Jane Killick, Mind Power: Perceivers #4:]
  • VAN GENNEP uses, Or, on a terrace vert a tulip gules, slipped proper and crowned of the first; LOKE in Zealand has : Argent , on a terrace vert a tulip or, slipped and leaved proper. [1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 337:]
  • The whole upon a terrace gules. CREST : A coronet of nobility of five pearls. MOTTO : Omnia Pro Libertate. [1966, The Armorial who is who:]
  • 267); "Argent, on a terrace vert, a cannon mounted or, supporting a Bird of Paradise proper" [Rjevski and Yeropkin]; [2022 September 16, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, DigiCat:]

Etymology

Borrowed from French terrasse, from Old Occitan terrassa, from Vulgar Latin *terrācea, from terra (“land”). Doublet of terrasse. See: French Nouns 'terrasse'.

Verbs referencing "terrace"

Swedish Nouns terrass.