semidetached

[ sem-ee-di-tacht, sem-ahy- ]

/ ˌsɛm i dɪˈtætʃt, ˌsɛm aɪ- /

partly detached.

of or relating to a house joined by a party wall to another house or row of houses.

Origin of semidetached

First recorded in 1855–60; semi- + detached

sem·i·de·tach·ment, noun

The name "semi-detached villa" had an appealing sound, especially to Hephzy, but the villas themselves did not appeal.

Kent Knowles: Quahaug |Joseph C. Lincoln
One finds in this particular stratum the artist, the journalist, the divorce and semi-detached woman whose name is legion.

My Actor-Husband |Anonymous
These semi-detached outlyers of the continent have enabled her to stretch a girdle of European influences around the central core.

Influences of Geographic Environment |Ellen Churchill Semple
He was installed in a villa, semi-detached; the name, Rosemore, on the gateposts.

The Ebb-Tide |Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyde Osbourne

The imagination may find its treasures in Tyre and Sidon or in an alley off a back street, or even in a semi-detached villa.

The Book of This and That |Robert Lynd

semidetached

/ (ˌsɛmɪdɪˈtætʃt) /