semidetached
adjective
semi·de·tached
ˌse-mē-di-ˈtacht 
ˌse-ˌmī-,
-mi-
: forming one of a pair of residences joined into one building by a common sidewall
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Rosenblatt now lives in a gray, semidetached Victorian house on a somnolent road just off the hurly-burly of a North London high street.
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John Lahr,
New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2026
Our family lived in a semidetached, two-story house with three bedrooms in a lower middle-class suburb of Bristol, England.
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Marc Myers,
WSJ,
2 Aug. 2022
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John Lahr,
New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2026
Our family lived in a semidetached, two-story house with three bedrooms in a lower middle-class suburb of Bristol, England.
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Marc Myers,
WSJ,
2 Aug. 2022
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“Semidetached.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/semidetached. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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