Meaning & use
residential location
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Meanings
nouncountable
A place where people live rather than work, shop, or do business.
Grammar: Countable; use an or the before it, and the plural is residential locations.
Patterns
- a residential location
- in a residential location
- choose a residential location
The council wants new housing in a residential location near the station.
This part of town is a quiet residential location with no factories.
nouncountable
The position of a home in relation to schools, transport, and other services.
Grammar: Often used with good, bad, or convenient to judge how suitable the spot is for living.
Patterns
- a convenient residential location
- a good residential location for something
- the residential location of something
Buyers pay more for a residential location within walking distance of a primary school.
Her flat has a convenient residential location, close to buses and shops.
Word forms
| plural | residential locations |
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Common combinations
- a quiet residential location
- They moved to a quiet residential location outside the city.
- a prime residential location
- The estate sits in a prime residential location by the park.
- a desirable residential location
- It is a desirable residential location for young families.
- in a residential location
- You cannot open a nightclub in a residential location.
- a residential location near something
- We found a residential location near the hospital.
Synonyms and how they differ
- residential area
- More common than residential location and usually means a whole neighborhood, not a single spot.
- neighborhood
- Refers to the district and its people, so it says nothing about whether buildings are homes or offices.
- address
- Names one exact building or home, while a residential location describes the kind of place it is.
Opposites
Word family
- residence noun
- A home or the fact of living somewhere.
- resident noun
- A person who lives in a particular place.
- residential adjective
- Describing an area or building used as homes.
- reside verb
- A formal verb meaning to live in a place.
Commonly confused: residential location or resident location?
residential location vs resident location
Resident is a person, so resident location is not the usual phrase; use residential location for the place itself.
Practice
Which sentence uses the phrase correctly?
Choose one answer.
Residential is the adjective that describes an area of homes, so 'a quiet residential location' fits. 'Resident location' wrongly uses the noun for a person, 'residence location' is not the normal phrase, and 'locate' is a verb.
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