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residential

residential

165 3.2
Of areas where people live, not where they work
  • adjective
  • /ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl/
translation icon : residencial
  • Then we were speeding through residential areas on the outskirts of the city.
  • a residential area
  • a residential neighborhood
  • a residential home

Most of their loans were actually to residential investors.

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Examples

  • They drove into a new residential area, and waited.

  • You're seeing a lot of residential construction starts.

  • And that split between residential and commercial.

  • The main residential area is here.

  • We said let's take residential customers to start with.

  • In five years, we project new residential sales to top $200 million.

  • It's located on a piece of residential land here in your county, Sheriff.

  • According to local sources, nearly 50 percent of residential construction has followed "green" building techniques.

    Academic text (2011)
  • It's the tallest residential building in the world.

  • The old high school in Reedville is now a residential building for retirees.

Antonyms

520 3.2

Relating to factories and the making of goods

491 3.4

About business and the buying and selling of goods and services

Not used for people to live in, like offices or shops

Compounds

Part of a town where people live in houses or apartments

An area of a town or city with mostly houses and apartments

How Built-Up

urban
571 2.5
built-up
7 4.0
developed
3.2
residential
165 3.2
suburban
234 3.5
rural
392 2.5

Surface Forms

residential positive

Morphology

residential = residence (transparent) = residence + ial

Formed from the noun 'residence' plus the adjectival suffix '-ial', meaning 'relating to places where people live', a directly inferable meaning for learners.

Etymology

Residential comes from the verb reside, which comes from an old Latin word residēre meaning 'to sit' or 'to stay'. So residential describes places where people 'live' or 'stay', not where they work.