town house
noun
1
: a usually single-family house of two or sometimes three stories that is usually connected to a similar house by a common sidewall
also
: row house
2
: a house in town
specifically
: the city residence of one having a country seat or having a chief residence elsewhere
stayed at their town house during the social season
Examples of town house in a Sentence
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From the rear window of Julie Hillman’s Manhattan office, the contours of her handsome town house home are nearly visible through a curtain of leaves.
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Kate Guadagnino, Architectural Digest, 13 Aug. 2024
An infant was seriously injured in a town house fire in Baltimore County on Wednesday afternoon.
Baltimore County Fire Department Battalion Chief Lonnie Ledford said at the scene that the infant was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in serious but not critical condition.
—Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2024
In another video, one that has found new life bopping around TikTok and Instagram, Bourgeois sits at a small table in her Chelsea town house before a blank piece of paper.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 31 July 2024
The campaign images are set in a grand London town house with model Adam Sattrup sitting on a brown suede sofa wearing a three layered outfit consisting of a wool blazer, a knit sweater and an unbuttoned shirt.
—Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 10 July 2024
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Kate Guadagnino, Architectural Digest, 13 Aug. 2024
An infant was seriously injured in a town house fire in Baltimore County on Wednesday afternoon.
Baltimore County Fire Department Battalion Chief Lonnie Ledford said at the scene that the infant was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in serious but not critical condition.
—Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2024
In another video, one that has found new life bopping around TikTok and Instagram, Bourgeois sits at a small table in her Chelsea town house before a blank piece of paper.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 31 July 2024
The campaign images are set in a grand London town house with model Adam Sattrup sitting on a brown suede sofa wearing a three layered outfit consisting of a wool blazer, a knit sweater and an unbuttoned shirt.
—Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 10 July 2024
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“Town house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/town%20house. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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