a semi-detached house
1semi-detached house — noun a dwelling that is attached to something on only one side • Hypernyms: ↑dwelling, ↑home, ↑domicile, ↑abode, ↑habitation, ↑dwelling house …
2semi-detached — semi de tached adj BrE a semi detached house is joined to another house on one side →↑detached, terraced ↑terraced …
3semi-detached — ADJ A semi detached house is a house that is joined to another house on one side by a shared wall. [mainly BRIT] ...a semi detached house in Highgate. Syn: semi N SING Semi detached is also a noun. It was an ordinary, post war semi detached …
4semi-detached — UK [ˌsemɪdɪˈtætʃt] / US / US [ˌsemaɪdɪˈtætʃt] adjective a semi detached house is joined to another house by one wall that they share Derived word: semi detached UK / US noun countable Word forms semi detached : singular semi detached plural semi… …
5semi-detached — adjective BrE a semi detached house is joined to another house by one shared wall compare detached (2), terraced house …
6semi-detached — [ˌsemidɪˈtætʃt] adj a semi detached house is joined to another house by one wall that they share …
7SEMI-DETACHED — adj. & n. adj. (of a house) joined to another by a party wall on one side only. n. a semi detached house …
8semi-detached — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of a house) joined to another house on one side by a common wall …
9Semi-detached — [ Mentmore, UK masquerade as one Mock Tudor style house.] Semi detached housing (often abbreviated to semi in the UK, Canada, and Australia, as in three bedroom semi, or outright renamed duplex in New England), consists of pairs of houses built… …
10semi-detached — (of a house) sharing a party wall The standard English usage avoids direct mention of the fact that the house is not separate from its neighbour: And the novel s title was the first recorded use (in 1859) of the word semi detached .… …