TERRACE

I. noun see: thirst Date: 1515 1. a colonnaded porch or promenade, a flat roof or open platform, a relatively level paved or planted area adjoining a building, 2. a raised embankment with the top leveled, one of usually a series of horizontal ridges made in a hillside to increase cultivatable land, conserve moisture, or minimize erosion, a level ordinarily narrow plain usually with steep front bordering a river, lake, or sea, 4. a row of houses or apartments on raised ground or a sloping site, a group of row houses, a strip of park in the middle of a street often planted with trees or shrubs, street , a section of a British soccer stadium set aside for standing spectators, II. transitive verb (~d; terracing) Date: 1650 to provide (as a building or hillside) with a ~, to make into a ~