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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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
But, my mom grew up right near Temple University in a row house.
—David Aldridge, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
Lorna Gross Interior Design Designer Lorna Gross drew inspiration from the bespoke train cars of the Orient Express for the interiors of an 1870 row house in Georgetown.
—Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 5 Feb. 2025
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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
But, my mom grew up right near Temple University in a row house.
—David Aldridge, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
Lorna Gross Interior Design Designer Lorna Gross drew inspiration from the bespoke train cars of the Orient Express for the interiors of an 1870 row house in Georgetown.
—Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 5 Feb. 2025
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 3 May. 2025.
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row house
noun
: any of a row of houses connected by common sidewalls
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