1.TBBa house in a town or city, especially a fashionable one in a central area 市镇住宅〔尤指市镇中心区的新式住宅〕
2TBBBritish EnglishBrE a house in a town that belongs to someone who also owns a house in the countryside 〔在乡间拥有住所者的〕市内住宅
the Duke’s townhouse in Mayfair
公爵在梅费尔的市内住宅
3.American EnglishAmETBB a house in a group of houses that share one or more walls 〔共用边墙的〕排屋,连栋房屋
Examples from the Corpus
townhouse• Nielsen now manages several 100 apartments and townhouses, most in Manhattan, with a smattering in Brooklyn.• Old buildings were knocked down, and new apartments and townhouses built.• The family moved into the Mayberry Estatestownhousecomplex last November.• Mark's Place, a tree-linedstreet filled with oversized townhouses.• They had restoredtownhouses with a vengeance.• Darkflakes of snowtumbledpast the candlelit windows of the Countess of Ratho's townhouse in Charlotte Square.• It overlooked an alley, and the bay windows were sun-blocked by the townhouse at 93.• Then the townhouses give way to dowdy apartment complexes with grimy windows facing the street.