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RESIDENTIAL AREA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences
Synonyms:
community; residential area; residential district
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
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)
