Terraced

noun
1.
a raised level with a vertical or sloping front or sides faced with masonry, turf, or the like, especially one of a series of levels rising one above another.
2.
the top of such a construction, used as a platform, garden, road, etc.
3.
a nearly level strip of land with a more or less abrupt descent along the margin of the sea, a lake, or a river.
4.
the flat roof of a house.
5.
an open, often paved area connected to a house or an apartment house and serving as an outdoor living area; deck.
6.
an open platform, as projecting from the outside wall of an apartment; a large balcony.
7.
a row of houses on or near the top of a slope.
8.
a residential street following the top of a slope.
verb (used with or without object), terraced, terracing.
9.
to form into or furnish with a terrace or terraces.
noun
1.
a horizontal flat area of ground, often one of a series in a slope
2.

a row of houses, usually identical and having common dividing walls, or the street onto which they face
(cap when part of a street name): Grosvenor Terrace

3.
a paved area alongside a building, serving partly as a garden
4.
a balcony or patio
5.
the flat roof of a house built in a Spanish or Oriental style
6.
a flat area bounded by a short steep slope formed by the down-cutting of a river or by erosion
7.
(usually pl)

unroofed tiers around a football pitch on which the spectators stand
the spectators themselves

verb
8.
(transitive) to make into or provide with a terrace or terraces

terrace ter·race (těr’ĭs)
v. ter·raced, ter·rac·ing, ter·rac·es
To suture in several rows, as when closing a wound through a considerable thickness of tissue.