subdivision

[suhb-di-vizh-uh n]

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noun

the act or fact of subdividing.

a product of subdividing, as a section of a department.

a portion of land divided into lots for real-estate development.

Botany, Mycology. a category of related classes within a division or phylum.

Origin of subdivision

1545–55; < Late Latin subdīvīsiōn- (stem of subdīvīsiō), equivalent to subdīvīs(us) (past participle of subdīvīdere to subdivide) + -iōn- -ion

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Related Words for subdivision

tract, development, group, community, subsidiary, class, subclass

Examples from the Web for subdivision

Contemporary Examples of subdivision

A few years later, the family moved into the peaceful Raintree Subdivision of Temple Terrace.
Teen Hostage Horror
Lynn Waddell
September 24, 2010

Historical Examples of subdivision

This subdivision of the large avenues, we were told, is gradually to be discarded.
Aztec Land
Maturin M. Ballou
The subdivision of labour, with all its advantages, has its reverse to the medal.
Nuts and Nutcrackers
Charles James Lever
A street car line will connect the plant and the subdivision.
Negro Migration during the War
Emmett J. Scott
The Subdivision, or part of a Chapter is marked usually thus, §.
A Short System of English Grammar
Henry Bate
Subdivision of labor is one of the triumphs of modern civilization.
The Guardian Angel
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

British Dictionary definitions for subdivision

subdivision

noun

the process, instance, or state of being divided again following upon an earlier division

a portion that is the result of subdividing

US and Canadian a tract of land for building resulting from subdividing land

Canadian a housing development built on such a tract

Derived Formssubdivisional, adjective

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Word Origin and History for subdivision

early 15c., "process of dividing into smaller parts;" mid-15c., "portion of land that has been divided," noun of action from subdivide. Sense of "land broken into lots for housing development" is from 1911.