semi-detached
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Adjective[edit]
semi-detached (not comparable)
- 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[edit]
semi-detached (plural semi-detacheds)
- Such a house.
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