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ˌsemi-deˈtached, a. (and n.)
[semi- 1.]
A. adj.
a. Partially detached.
1859Archaeol. Cant. II. p. xxxix, The foundations of the villa were very extensive including one semi-detached apartment. 1862Ansted Channel Isl. i. v. 93 Large semi-detached masses of rock. 1907Daily Chron. 28 Oct. 7/4 The miserable semi-detached life you and I have been living.
b. spec. Designating either of a pair of houses joined together and forming a block by themselves.
1859E. Eden (title) The Semi-Detached House. 1871Punch 9 Sept. 100/1 A lot of semi-detached Cockney villas. 1882Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 Sept. 517/1 No drain should pass beneath a detached or semi-detached house.
B. absol. as n. A semi-detached house. colloq.
1928D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xi. 188 New little streets of semi-detacheds were run up. 1957M. & A. Potter Interiors 43/2 The garden city notions..blotting the green countryside everywhere with varieties of the popular ‘semi-detached’. 1979C. Dexter Service of All Dead iii. 23 He'd found a quiet little semi-detached to rent.
Add: Hence ˌsemi-deˈtachment n., the state or condition of being partially detached. Also transf. and fig. (in quot. 1859, punningly). rare.
1859E. Eden Semi-Detached House i. 1, I should hate my semi-detachment, or whatever the occupants of the other half of the house may call themselves. 1963Punch 16 Jan. 92/2 An alternative to murder or divorce is the well-known English semi-detachment. |