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    RESIDENTIAL AREA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A district where people live; occupied primarily by private residencesplay

    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)

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