WordNet
n. a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences [syn: residential district, community]
Wikipedia
A residential area is a land use in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas. Housing may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas. These include single-family housing, multi-family residential, or mobile homes. Zoning for residential use may permit some services or work opportunities or may totally exclude business and industry. It may permit high density land use or only permit low density uses. Residential zoning usually includes a smaller FAR ( floor area ratio) than business, commercial or industrial/manufacturing zoning. The area may be large or small.
Usage examples of "residential area".
The Newport Beach Library lay in the near distance, deserted looking at this hour, and the lights of the high-rise office buildings and hotels in Fashion Island loomed somewhat farther away through the silvery veils of rain, but in spite of being in a busy commercial and residential area, this stretch of MacArthur Boulevard was less of a boulevard than its name implied, with no sidewalks or streetlamps along its westbound lanes.
We left the residential area, passing through another glass door, and down another passageway.
We crossed State at the intersection and headed into a residential area called South Rockingham.
Lake Hollywood Drive meandered up through a residential area to the reservoir.
The hut was situated roughly in the center of the surface residential area, which put it above the Core zone of the lower levels.
Beds of them were being fertilized and planted around and through the residential area.
Joca Village was an ultraexclusive residential area, heavily guarded.
Tecumseh Lane was a pleasant street in an older residential area with small frame houses and neatly trimmed azalea bushes.
The Cafe Midi was in what was called the Tower District, an older commercial and residential area so named because of the Tower Theater, a vintage art deco movie theater whose neon lit tower stood at the center of what served as San Joaquin's Greenwich Village or North Beach.