residential

Pluralresidentials

1. 1
   adjective

   Relating to homes, or to a location set aside for places where people make their homes.

   The city rezoned the entire district as residential after the factories closed.

   Narrow residential streets discourage through traffic and keep speeds low.

   Oppositecommercial, industrial

2. 2
   adjective

   Used as a place to live, or used by the people living there.

   Planners converted the disused warehouse into residential lofts.

   The residential wing of the complex houses about two hundred tenants.

   Oppositecommercial

3. 3
   adjective

   Relating to residency: the fact or period of officially living in a particular place.

   The scholarship carries a residential requirement of two full years on campus.

   Immigration officials reviewed her residential history before granting the visa.

4. 4
   nouncountable

   A trip during which a group of people temporarily live together, typically for a course, retreat, or school activity.

   The week-long residential gave the team time to bond away from the office.

   Sixth-grade students look forward to their first residential by the coast.

   Similarretreat, camp

   Note

   Here the adjective is put to work as a countable noun, naming a whole stay away from home. It behaves like any count noun: it takes an article (a residential, their first residential) and forms a regular plural, residentials. Once it has an article or a plural ending, it can only mean the trip, never the plain 'lived-in' adjective.

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