Meaning & use
residential address
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Meaning
nouncountableformal
The street address of the home where a person actually lives, as opposed to a mailing address or a workplace.
Grammar: Takes a plural: one residential address, two residential addresses.
Patterns
- residential address of someone
- give a residential address
Please enter your residential address, not your work address.
The bank needs proof of your residential address.
A post office box cannot be used as a residential address.
Word forms
| plural | residential addresses |
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Common combinations
- provide a residential address
- You must provide a residential address when you register.
- current residential address
- Please list your current residential address.
- proof of residential address
- A utility bill is accepted as proof of residential address.
- change your residential address
- Tell the bank if you change your residential address.
- residential address and mailing address
- The form asks for both a residential address and a mailing address.
Synonyms and how they differ
- home address
- Home address is the everyday phrase, whereas residential address sounds official.
- street address
- Street address names the road and number, but it could be a business, while residential means a home.
- place of residence
- Place of residence is more formal and legal in tone.
- domicile
- Domicile is a legal term for a permanent home and is rarely used in forms.
Opposites
Word family
- residence noun
- the place where someone lives
- resident noun
- a person who lives somewhere
- residential adjective
- relating to homes
- reside verb
- to live in a place
Commonly confused: residential address or mailing address? residential address or commercial address?
residential address vs mailing address
A mailing address is where mail is sent and could be a PO box, whereas a residential address is where you live.
residential address vs commercial address
A commercial address belongs to a business, not a home.
Practice
The form asks for your ____ address, so a PO box is not accepted.
Choose one answer.
Residential address means where you live. Commercial would be a business, which is not what the form wants.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “residential address”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.