duplex
Other forms: duplexes; duplexing
A two-family house can be called a duplex. Living in a duplex is great — unless the people with whom you share a wall like to have all-night yodeling parties.
In the U.K. a duplex is an apartment with an upstairs and a downstairs, but in North America a duplex is a building divided into two separate living spaces. Most duplexes are built with the two homes side by side, although you can also live in a duplex with apartments on two floors. The Latin duplex means "twofold," from duo, "two," and -plex, "to intertwine." The word was coined in the U.S. around 1922.
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a house with two units sharing a common wallsynonyms: duplex house, semidetached housetype of:housea dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
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an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircasesynonyms: duplex apartment
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(used technically of a device or process) having two parts“a duplex transaction”synonyms:multiplehaving or involving or consisting of more than one part or entity or individual
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allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously“duplex system”“duplex telephony”synonyms:bidirectionalreactive or functioning or allowing movement in two usually opposite directions
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change into a duplextype of:convertchange the nature, purpose, or function of something
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Vocabulary lists containing duplex
Shaker Heights seems like an idyllic suburb, but tensions between the conventional Richardson family and their mysterious new tenant come to a head during a custody dispute that divides the town.
Imprisoned in a detention camp, Betita dreams of reuniting her family.