Residential [adjective]

Definition of Residential:

characterized by private, as opposed to commercial, dwellings

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Sentence/Example of Residential:

The business and residential portion had gradually shifted northward.

Batavia is the business quarter of the city; Weltevreden the residential.

The streets were practically deserted in the residential part of the town.

He was a member of the residential colony who had made Florence their home.

I chose the district carefully, because it was residential, and not commercial.

Scattering it in tenements and residential districts has been very unfortunate.

It is not a residential college, and it has no laboratories.

A fashionable apartment, for his mother-in-law, in the residential district!

Now it is as much of a business section as it was once residential.

The commercial quarter thus cuts the residential ring on one side.