Definition of Semi-detached house

1. Noun. A dwelling that is attached to something on only one side.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Semi-detached House

semi-bluffed
semi-bluffing
semi-bluffs
semi-circle
semi-circular
semi-closed anaesthesia
semi-closed circle
semi-closed game
semi-closed games
semi-colon
semi-colons
semi-conscious
semi-decidable
semi-deponent
semi-detached
semi-detached house (current term)
semi-easy chair
semi-elasticity
semi-final
semi-finalist
semi-finalists
semi-finals
semi-formal
semi-heavy water
semi-highway
semi-human
semi-log paper
semi-metal
semi-metals
semi-monthly

Literary usage of Semi-detached house

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot by Walter Bagehot, Russell Barrington (1915)
"THE semi-detached house.i (From "The Saturday Review? 27th August, 1859. ... The notion is that we ought not to dislike to live in a semi-detached house. ..."

2. The English Home by Banister Fletcher, Herbert Phillips Fletcher (1910)
"A semi-detached house. , /- a . e • t ILLS, it AND 12. His. rj and 12 are the ground and first-floor plans of a pair of semi-detached houses. ..."

3. Replanning Reading: An Industrial City of a Hundred Thousand by John Nolen (1910)
"Under these laws, plans are made for the extension of small towns as well A TYPE OF semi-detached house APPROPRIATE FOR READING. as for large cities, ..."

4. Houses and Gardens by Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott (1906)
"If there is any rational excuse for the semi-detached house it is that the ... From the artistic point ot view the semi-detached house presents the ..."

5. Gaslight and Daylight: With Some London Scenes They Shine Upon by George Augustus Sala (1859)
"... bridge connecting the two, as in Mr. Beckford's house in Landsdown Crescent, Bath ? A semi-detached house may be a house with a field on one side and a ..."

6. Gaslight and Daylight: With Some London Scenes They Shine Upon by George Augustus Sala (1859)
"A semi-detached house may be a house with a field on one side and a bone-boiling factory on the other. Semi-detached may mean half-tumbling to pieces. ..."

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