RESIDENTIAL AREA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does residential area mean? 

• RESIDENTIAL AREA (noun)
  The noun RESIDENTIAL AREA has 1 sense:

1. a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences

  Familiarity information: RESIDENTIAL AREA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESIDENTIAL AREA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

community; residential area; residential district

Hypernyms ("residential area" is a kind of...):

district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

Meronyms (parts of "residential area"):

housing development (a residential area of similar dwellings built by property developers and usually under a single management)

housing estate (a residential area where the houses were all planned and built at the same time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "residential area"):

planned community (a residential district that is planned for a certain class of residents)

uptown (a residential part of town away from the central commercial district)

suburb; suburban area; suburbia (a residential district located on the outskirts of a city)

exurbia (a residential area outside of a city and beyond suburbia)

tenement district (a residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses)

rabbit warren; warren (an overcrowded residential area)

Instance hyponyms:

Georgetown (a section of northwestern Washington, D.C.)

Greenwich Village; Village (a mainly residential district of Manhattan; 'the Village' became a home for many writers and artists in the 20th century)

 Context examples 

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

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