Residential means made up of homes rather than shops or factories. People live here and nothing much else happens.
Planning uses it as a formal category, so a residential area, residential planning permission and residential parking are all defined terms, and changing land from residential to commercial use is a decision councils make. There is a second sense meaning live-in, since a residential course or a residential home involves staying overnight, and residential care is a whole sector of social provision.
1adjectiveresidentialConsisting of housing rather than businesses.
“The whole street is residential.”
2adjectiveinvolvingInvolving living on the premises.
“It is a residential course lasting a fortnight.”
Practised in A Man Called Ove
First appears in chapter 2 of A Man Called Ove.
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