townhouse

See also: row house, town house, and terraced house

English

Alternative forms

town house

Etymology

From town +‎ house. Compare Dutch tuinhuis (“summer house, cabana”), tuinhuisje (“bower”).

Noun

townhouse (plural townhouses)

1. (chiefly US, Canada, Australia, Philippines) A row house or terraced house.

   Hypernym: house

2. A house in an urban setting.

   Hypernym: house

3. (dated) A town hall.

Derived terms

• Creole townhouse

Translations

row house — see rowhouse

house in an urban setting

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聯排別墅／联排别墅 (liánpái biéshù)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kaupunkitalo
• French: maison de ville f
• German: Stadthaus (de) n
• Japanese: 町家 (ja) (まちや, machiya)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: (neologism) таунха́ус (ru) m (taunxáus)

town hall — see town hall