RESIDENTIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does residential mean? 

• RESIDENTIAL (adjective)
  The adjective RESIDENTIAL has 2 senses:

1. used or designed for residence or limited to residences

2. of or relating to or connected with residence

  Familiarity information: RESIDENTIAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESIDENTIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used or designed for residence or limited to residences

Context example:

residential zoning

Antonym:

nonresidential (not residential)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to or connected with residence

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

a residential requirement for the doctorate

Pertainym:

residence (the act of dwelling in a place)

Derivation:

residence (the act of dwelling in a place)

 Context examples 

The classification of a residential structure.

(Housing Type, NCI Thesaurus)

The units of measure that are used to express the humidity of a residential environment.

(Housing Humidity Units, NCI Thesaurus)

An individual who is presently or not long ago worked or offered to assist without pay at a residential health care facility for persons with chronic illness or disability.

(Current or Recent Employee or Volunteer in Nursing Home, NCI Thesaurus)

A residential health care facility for persons with chronic illness or disability.

(Nursing home, NCI Thesaurus)

Holmes pointed with a chuckle to one of these, a row of residential flats, which projected so that they could not fail to catch the eye.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The investigators estimated the couples’ exposures to ozone based on pollution levels in their residential communities.

(Air pollution exposure in early pregnancy linked to miscarriage, National Institutes of Health)

We are in Fléron, Belgium, this antenna is in the middle of a residential area.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

Wastewater from residential areas has similar or even higher levels of antibiotic resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes compared to hospitals, where you would expect greater antibiotic concentrations, he said.

(Toothpaste and Hand Wash Are Causing Antibiotic Resistance, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Further work is needed on the effect of the residential environment on mental health from a gender perspective.

(Depression - men far more at risk than women in deprived areas, University of Cambridge)

Certain factors that often coincide with poverty also tended to coincide with higher cotinine levels—more residential moves, unstable households with adults coming and going, low educational attainment by adults in the household, and low income.

(Infants, Toddlers at More Risk from Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke than Thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)