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Answer for the clue "Type of area dotted with homes ", 11 letters:
residential

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Word definitions for residential in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a housing/residential complex (= for people to live in ) ▪ Architects designed the residential complexes near the beach. a residential area (= a part of a town where people live ) ▪ They had a large house in a pleasant ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to a place of personal residence or to a location for such places. 2 Used as a residence or by residents. 3 Of or pertaining to residency. n. A trip during which people temporarily live together.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "serving as a residence," from resident (n.) + -ial . Meaning "having to do with housing" is from 1856.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Residential \Res`i*den""tial\ (-d?n"shal), a. Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade; a residential part of town. Residing; residentiary. [R.]

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. used or designed for residence or limited to residences; "a residential hotel"; "a residential quarter"; "a residential college"; "residential zoning" [ant: nonresidential ] of or relating to or connected with residence; "a residential requirement ...

Usage examples of residential.

In careful orientation to one another and to the whole were the large residential Sections connected and interlaced by the expressway and the localways.

The residential court was enclosed by expensive-looking stucco maisonettes, what the Americans referred to as townhouses, all of them topped with roofs of rounded green tile.

We left the overpass and moved down a concrete road through west Northolt, a residential suburb of the airport.

On the landward right side of the quai stood multistoried brick or stone residential buildings, and their inhabitants came outside or threw open their windows, even on this chill gray day, to get a better look at the circus procession.

Sitting at his terminals he can scan the world and control everything he touches, but now he is unshelled in front of a closed house on a deserted residential street in Palm Beach, Florida, and when he goes to the front door anything can happen.

Street of the Writhing Slave winds tortuously upward from the wharves, threading its narrow way through a commercial district upward towards a hilly residential district.

The German civilians had shown no sign of panic at the effect of those bombs that had landed in residential areas.

In 2380 it was home to just over a billion people, a centerless urban sprawl of factories and residential districts stretching for more than six hundred kilometers along the shore and up to three hundred inland.

This street paralleled Main, though it was narrower and darker, a quiet residential neighborhood with no houselights showing.

She lived in a residential area in Humble, a city between Kingwood and the northern environs of Houston.

THE HOME OF THE MURDERED Spyder Nielsen sat on the most coveted piece of residential property in all of Pit-kin County, Colorado.

Corazon on the residential and tourist world of Paloduro, third in prominence in the Solojo star system, inside a rented high school gymnasium, a battle raged in an altogether different dimension.

Whereas Paloduro was the most beautiful of the four planets, the center for tourism and the residential center of the system, another world, Dinero Grande, was the administrative and business center.

It was a one-way street, Caroline noted, very residential, with the lines of parked cars on both sides leaving only a narrow lane open for traffic.

He never left it on a residential street, understanding the insomnia of the elderly and the late-night revels of the young.