Terrace

1. v. A level plain, usually with a steep front, bordering a river, a lake, or sometimes the sea.
2. v. A raised level space, shelf, or platform of earth, supported on one or more sides by a wall, a bank of tuft, or the like, whether designed for use or pleasure.
3. v. A balcony, especially a large and uncovered one.
4. v. A flat roof to a house; as, the buildings of the Oriental nations are covered with terraces.
5. v. A street, or a row of houses, on a bank or the side of a hill; hence, any street, or row of houses.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.