单词 | semi-detached |
释义 | semi-detached From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Housesemi-detachedˌsemi-deˈtached adjective British EnglishDHHa semi-detached house is joined to another house on one side → detached, terracedExamples from the Corpussemi-detached• In the past I have lived in a large Victorian house and a 1930s semi-detached.• You are not bothered whether the house is detached or semi-detached, but you do not want to live on an estate.• About 30 police of whom a third were armed surrounded the semi-detached house and evacuated neighbouring homes.• She and Jarvis's father and Jarvis lived in a semi-detached house in Wimbledon.• Lorry driver Mr Wynne, 47, was woken by screams coming from the semi-detached house next door.• Meanwhile private inter-war suburbia had its distinctive style where the semi-detached house was dominant.• After 1945 vast new estates, mainly of semi-detached houses, began to extend further out.• A pair of semi-detached houses which seemed rather out of place adjoined Invicta Terrace. |
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