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.—
Eric Wybenga
Eric WybengaExamples of row house in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Firefighters took defensive positions on the rooftops of nearby row houses, the station's coverage showed.
—Dennis Romero, NBC news, 13 May 2025
Window gardening did help save some of Philly’s old row house neighborhoods from demolition during urban renewal beginning in the 1950s.
—Sonja Dümpelmann, The Conversation, 24 Apr. 2025
The Philadelphia setting foregrounds inner-city row houses, scrappy corner stores, and nondescript citizens just trying to go about their business — a working-class vision of a blue collar town.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
This is a two-story Victorian red-brick row house in what was, in Foster’s youth, a wholly working-class neighborhood.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for row house
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Dennis Romero, NBC news, 13 May 2025
Window gardening did help save some of Philly’s old row house neighborhoods from demolition during urban renewal beginning in the 1950s.
—Sonja Dümpelmann, The Conversation, 24 Apr. 2025
The Philadelphia setting foregrounds inner-city row houses, scrappy corner stores, and nondescript citizens just trying to go about their business — a working-class vision of a blue collar town.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
This is a two-story Victorian red-brick row house in what was, in Foster’s youth, a wholly working-class neighborhood.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for row house
Cite this Entry
“Row house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/row%20house. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
Copy CitationKids Definition
row house
noun
: any of a row of houses connected by common sidewalls
Love words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share