residential
of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.
suited for or characterized by private residences: a residential neighborhood.
Origin of residential
1Other words from residential
- res·i·den·ti·al·i·ty [rez-i-den-shee-al-i-tee], /ˌrɛz ɪˌdɛn ʃiˈæl ɪ ti/, noun
- res·i·den·tial·ly, adverb
- non·res·i·den·tial, adjective
- pseu·do·res·i·den·tial, adjective
- qua·si-res·i·den·tial, adjective
- qua·si-res·i·den·tial·ly, adverb
- un·res·i·den·tial, adjective
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How to use residential in a sentence
Andrew Keatts wrote last week about the origins of single-family zoning in San Diego, which account for 70 percent of residential land and will be untouched under Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s push for housing reform.
Morning Report: MTS Rejects Many Who Applied for Disabled Fare Reductions | Voice of San Diego | August 31, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoShort North is a business district with a collection of residential neighborhoods.
Even near transit stations, more than 50 percent of area zoned for residential use is restricted to single-family homes.
Morning Report: A Century of Single Family Home Supremacy | Voice of San Diego | August 27, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoThat leaves roughly half of all residential land in so-called Transit Priority Areas untouched by the new program, according to data provided by the city’s planning department.
Single-Family Zoning’s Century of Supremacy in San Diego | Andrew Keatts | August 26, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoThe county lab from mid-May to mid-June processed 2,100 test kits from residential care facilities, which includes assisted living facilities, more than four times the prior month.
COVID-19 Testing Plans Leave Out Assisted Living Facilities | Jared Whitlock | June 26, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
A Colorado-based full- service residential mortgage banking company.
We gazed on a residential area of box-like homes stacked on top of one another on a steep hillside.
The name of his equestrian club and residential land development derives from the Otomí native people of central Mexico.
Three stray dogs saunter out of our way as we turn into a residential area lined with trailers and graffiti-sprayed stop signs.
A Shooting on a Tribal Land Uncovers Feds Running Wild | Caitlin Dickson | August 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYes, Hamas is firing rockets from residential areas and storing weapons caches in schools.
Why I’m Against Hamas, Against What Israel Is Doing, and For Judaism | Sally Kohn | July 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey had seen enough to be convinced that there were parts of India much preferable to Delhi for residential purposes.
The Red Year | Louis TracyDropped off Williams on that residential street around the corner from the bank.
They traversed the new residential area characterized by larger grounds and a higher average of architecture.
A Hoosier Chronicle | Meredith NicholsonIt was chiefly in the seventeenth century that what we now know as the West End became a residential quarter.
Stories That Words Tell Us | Elizabeth O'NeillCharlestown may claim to be the port of St. Austell, and is becoming also a popular residential suburb.
The Cornwall Coast | Arthur L. Salmon
British Dictionary definitions for residential
/ (ˌrɛzɪˈdɛnʃəl) /
suitable for or allocated for residence: a residential area
relating to or having residence
Derived forms of residential
- residentially, adverb
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