English > residential area: 1 sense > noun 1, location| Meaning | A district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences. |
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| Synonyms | residential district, community |
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| Instances | Georgetown | A section of northwestern Washington, D.C. |
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| Greenwich Village, Village | A mainly residential district of Manhattan |
| Parts | housing development | A residential area of similar dwellings built by property developers and usually under a single management |
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| housing estate | A residential area where the houses were all planned and built at the same time |
| Narrower | exurbia | A residential area outside of a city and beyond suburbia |
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| planned community | A residential district that is planned for a certain class of residents |
| suburb, suburbia, suburban area | A residential district located on the outskirts of a city |
| tenement district | A residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses |
| uptown | A residential part of town away from the central commercial district |
| warren, rabbit warren | An overcrowded residential area |
| Broader | district, territory, territorial dominion, dominion | A region marked off for administrative or other purposes |
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| Spanish | zona residencial |
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| Catalan | zona residencial |
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