gated community

American  

noun

1. a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.

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Example Sentences

The custom dwelling, which is in the exclusive gated community of North Beverly Park, was designed for Murphy by storied architect Richard Landry, who envisioned the layout for the 33,600-square-foot Mediterranean-style villa, which was completed in 2003.

From MarketWatch

The Dallas sky is still half-dark when the black Escalade rolls into the gated community to pick up 03 Greedo.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. Rusesabagina, who is a Belgian citizen and a permanent resident of the United States, became anxious about being surveilled in Brussels, where members of his family lived, and in 2009 he moved them to a gated community in San Antonio, Texas.

From New York Times

For the project — named the Vila Rica House, after the gated community in which it was built — she and the architects wanted to create something that would pay homage to Brasília and the native countryside from which it was born, trading out fields of white plaster for low-slung pavilions made from pockmarked concrete beams and partitions of red brick that run parallel to the ground.

From New York Times

“The bigger thing that’s consistent between Obama’s second term to Trump to now how Biden has started out is: ‘We take care of our own,’ ” said Brian Katulis, a foreign policy expert at the left-leaning Center for American Progress who has referred to the latest turn in foreign policy as “the gated community mind-set.”

From Washington Post