red-light district

1. 1.

   a district with many brothels

   Broadercity district

Questions about red-light district

What does red-light district mean?

red-light district means "a district with many brothels".

Is red-light district a common word?

red-light district is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.