🇬🇧 Townhouse meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A townhouse is a type of house that shares its side walls with the house next to it. Townhouses are usually lined up in a row, all touching each other, like houses holding hands. Each one is its own home inside, with its own front door and maybe its own little yard, but the buildings are stuck together, not standing all alone.

The townhouse next door has a door that looks exactly like ours, so I’ve accidentally tried to move in with them three times.

In our townhouse row, one neighbor decorates for every holiday, including “Happy Random Tuesday” with balloons.

When I jump in my townhouse bedroom, I swear the neighbor’s picture frames start a small earthquake drill.

In a townhouse, if you practice trumpet too loudly, the neighbors suddenly know all your songs.

Townhouses are often built in long attached rows to save space in crowded cities—so from above they can look like a giant centipede made of houses sneaking through the streets.

She unlocked her new townhouse and smelled bread next door. The neighbor in the blue townhouse smiled and waved from the shared townhouse porch. Two townhouses, one wall, one small garden—neighbors met over tea. Her tired grin warmed the row of townhouses; the connected townhouses felt like home, and she laughed.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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