<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a raised level with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf, or the like, especially one of a series of levels rising one above another.</li><li>the top of such a construction, used as a platform, garden, road, etc.</li><li>a nearly level strip of land with a more or less abrupt descent along the margin of the sea, a lake, or a river.</li><li>the flat roof of a house.</li><li>an open, often paved area connected to a house or an apartment house and serving as an outdoor living area; deck.</li><li>an open platform, as projecting from the outside wall of an apartment; a large balcony.</li><li>a row of houses on or near the top of a slope.</li><li>a residential street following the top of a slope.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with or without object) to form into or furnish with a terrace or terraces.</li></ul>