semi-detached

See also: semidetached

English

Etymology

semi- + detached

Adjective

semi-detached (not comparable)

  1. Of a house: joined to another one on one side, having one shared wall.
    • 1860 July, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 80:
      In the smaller plans of a "Mansionette near Wimbledon Park," "Semi-detached Houses," and "The Compact House built near Blackheath," we are not favoured with any scale.
    • 1946, George Orwell, Decline of the English Murder:
      The murderer should be a little man of the professional class — a dentist or a solicitor, say — living an intensely respectable life somewhere in the suburbs, and preferably in a semi-detached house, which will allow the neighbours to hear suspicious sounds through the wall.

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Noun

semi-detached (plural semi-detacheds)

  1. Such a house.

Synonyms

  • duplex
  • duplex house
  • semi
  • semi-detached house
  • twin house

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