semi-detached

See also: semidetached

English

Etymology

From 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.

Translations

having one wall shared

Finnish: pari- (in paritalo) French: jumelée (fr) f German: Doppel- Italian: bifamiliare (it) f Polish: bliźniaczy (pl)

See also

• detached

Noun

semi-detached (plural semi-detacheds)

1. Such a house.

Synonyms

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

 

Translations

house

Dutch: twee-onder-een-kapwoning (nl), twee-onder-een-kapper Finnish: paritalo (fi) German: Doppelhaushälfte (de) f, Doppelhaus (de) n Hungarian: ikerház (hu) egyik fele (literally “one half of a twin house”) Icelandic: parhús Irish: teach leathscoite m Polish: bliźniak (pl) m Portuguese: casa geminada f Spanish: adosado (es) m Swedish: parhus (sv) n Welsh: tŷ pâr m