variants
or less commonly rowhouse
: one of a series of houses connected by common sidewalls and forming a continuous group
Fundamentally, a row house is a building that stands cheek by jowl with its neighbors, often sharing a common wall.—
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Zillow defines single-family homes as attached or semi-attached row houses, duplexes, quadruplexes and townhomes.
—Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
Use cedar planking Every inch counts in this narrow row house.
—Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 15 Apr. 2026
Auntie Hảo has left Evie the deed to her San Francisco row house.
—Ashlee Conour, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
Some are, sadly, timeless, like the rank Islamophobia that leads racists to hurl a pig’s head through the window of Shah’s parents’ Wembley row house.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
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Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
Use cedar planking Every inch counts in this narrow row house.
—Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 15 Apr. 2026
Auntie Hảo has left Evie the deed to her San Francisco row house.
—Ashlee Conour, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
Some are, sadly, timeless, like the rank Islamophobia that leads racists to hurl a pig’s head through the window of Shah’s parents’ Wembley row house.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for row house
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“Row house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/row%20house. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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row house
noun
: any of a row of houses connected by common sidewalls
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