terrace definition

1. a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)
2. a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face)
• examples: Grosvenor Terrace
3. provide (a house) with a terrace
• examples: We terrassed the country house
4. make into terraces as for cultivation
• examples: The Incas terraced their mountainous land