residential district

Questions about residential district

What does residential district mean?

residential district means "a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences".

What is another word for residential district?

Close synonyms include residential area, community. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is residential district a common word?

residential 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.