WordNet
n. a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences [syn: residential area, community]
Usage examples of "residential district".
They had invaded lawns and garages in the Casa Alegre residential district, had been run over by cars and captured by children.
He should have known better than to expect that a casual acquaintance in a cheap residential district would be able to tell him what he wanted to know.
They're extending 784 through Westside and the Blue Ribbon is standing right in the way, along with half the residential district.
In the early morning hours he found his way out of the forest, almost by accident, stepping forth unexpectedly into what had once been a neatly laid out residential district.
At Sumner Avenue the two real immortals turned right and walked in the direction of the interior, through the residential district with its high narrow Victorian houses, and beyond, where they entered Avalon Canyon Road.
Bordering the northern edge of Dead Town's residential district is a park with handball courts at one end and tennis courts at the other.
There wasn't a soul in sight at the moment, in this quiet residential district, and it seemed humanly impossible that I had been sighted.
Finally they opened ranks and the Hovertanks fell in to follow a guard runabout, moving into the vaulted passageways of the residential district, so much like those of the Masters' original flagship.
Thet Shay took him through the ruined town, a place of miserable desolation and burnt posts, to a residential district out beyond what had been the railway station to the west of the town.