terrace

noun

• 1a level paved area next to a building; a patio: breakfast is served on the terrace

• 2each of a series of flat areas made on a slope, used for cultivation.
• (usually terraces) British a flight of wide, shallow steps providing standing room for spectators in a stadium, especially a soccer ground.
• Geology a natural horizontal shelf-like formation, such as a raised beach.

• 3British a row of houses built in one block in a uniform style: an attractive Regency terrace
• an individual house in a terrace: modern furniture looks out of place in your Victorian terrace

verb

• make or form (sloping land) into a number of level flat areas resembling a series of steps: the slope had to be terraced