residentialadj.1n.
/ˌrɛzᵻˈdɛnʃl/, U.S. /ˌrɛzəˈdɛn(t)ʃ(ə)l/ A. adj.1
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a. Serving or used as a residence; in which one resides; providing accommodation in addition to other services.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > [adjective]
residential1650
1650 Mercurius Politicus No. 17. 287 The Prince Elector, at his Residentiall City of Heidelberg, hath set forth Letters Patents, to invite Foreiners to goe and inhabit his Countries.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. vi. 213 Let him see The Residential [printed Residentials] Court of Chastity.
1690 J. Norris Christian Blessedness 161 To his fix'd Dwelling and residential Abode in us.
1718 J. Fox Wanderer No. 8. 43 The residential Palace of a Monarch, beautify'd with a delightful Park.
1740 D. Waterland Regeneration 13 In Baptism, the same Spirit fixes, as it were, his Dwelling, or residential Abode.
1820 Imperial Mag. May 309 They possessed thirty-one provinces,..ninety-six residential houses, and two hundred and ninety-three colleges.
1846 Times 26 June 2/1 The land taken for the Leicester and Bedford line is marsh land, so low as to be incapable of drainage, and utterly unfit for the erection of residential property.
1886 Fortn. Rev. 39 24 It [sc. a medical college for women] has no residential hall, nor is it desirable perhaps that it should have any.
1910 Bradshaw's Railway Guide Apr. 1009 Imperial Hotel. First-class family and residential.
1943 Archit. Rev. 93 91/1 Five such residential units make up into one neighbourhood unit of approximately a thousand families.
1960 Times 21 Mar. 8/5 Oxford, Cambridge and the other residential universities enjoy special prestige compared with the civic universities.
2004 Surface No. 48. 24/1 I was overjoyed to see his plans for a residential tower in New York City.
b. Esp. of a district in a town, etc.: adapted to, suitable for, or characterized by private houses.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [adjective] > fashionable part
up-town1838
residential1852
1852 Morning Chron. 16 Feb. 2/5 It is said that the line passes through ‘the richest and best residential district in Ireland’.
1878 F. S. Williams Midland Railway (ed. 4) 219 The landowner alleged that the line would injure a considerable residential estate.
1900 H. A. Jones Mrs. Dane's Defence iii. 49 My dear Sir Daniel, we live in a residential neighbourhood..and what possible occupation is there..except to discuss scandal.
1961 E. A. Powdrill Vocab. Land Planning v. 97 The residential zone will become an industrial and commercial zone and so creating [sic] new problems.
1994 Maclean's 7 Nov. 60/1 They break into cars and roar up and down residential streets.
2008 Business Wire (Nexis) 17 June The property is located just off Washington Street Mall and near the desirable residential neighborhood of Beacon Hill.
2. Connected with, entailing, or relating to, residence or residences (in various senses).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective] > relating to
resiant1593
residential1701
residentiary1839
residental1841
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > [adjective] > relating to a residence
residential1701
1701 W. Pudsey Constit. & Laws Eng. Consider'd 256 And why may not that Authority be establish'd, a residential local Country-Authority, to Hear and Determine Felonies now?
1754 M. Catesby & G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Carolina (rev. ed.) II. App. p. xxxviii/1 The crown of England claims all the Bahama Islands, yet there are no residential inhabitants.
1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 21/1 One building, as far as respects the architecture, is in the most beautiful specimens of the residential style we have ever seen.
1881 Nation 32 178 Fixing the residential qualification of voters.
1952 Density of Residential Areas (Min. of Housing & Local Govt.) 1/1 The term ‘residential density’..signifies the degree of closeness with which dwellings, and hence the people occupying them, are arranged in the residential areas of towns and villages.
1977 Age (Melbourne) 18 Jan. 8/3 Parents doing residential adoptions (i.e. going to the country of the child's origin) are approved by the host country.
1999 Building Design 13 Aug. 38/1 (advt.) It combines eight intensive residential weeks at the University spread over two years with problem-solving assignments related to your organisation.
3. Of or belonging to a British Government agent in a semi-independent state. Cf. resident n.1 2a. rare (now historical).
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [adjective] > relating to resident representative
residential1765
1765 Narr. Displayed in Let. Appeal 3 Mr. L—t was, by reason of his natural interest, and residential connections..put on the bays of popularity.
1885 Glasgow Her. 4 Dec. 6/3 A British Resident—or, to speak correctly, a British official endowed with Residential powers, has been established in Mandalay.
2004 Jrnl. Southeast Asian Stud. (Nexis) 35 21 In order to maintain their support for the British Residential system, the sultans were granted personal allowances and pensions and a seat in the State Councils.
B. n.
Originally and chiefly Australian. A residential hotel.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > hotel
hotel1687
hotel garni1744
lodgea1817
gasthof1832
temperance house1833
temperance hotel1837
railway hotel1839
palace hotel1844
parador1845
caravanserai1848
resort hotel1886
metropole1890
Ritz1900
trust house1902
apartment hotel1909
welfare hotel1915
motel1925
motor hotel1925
auto court1926
motor court1936
motor lodge1936
residential1940
botel1956
floatel1959
apartotel1965
motor inn1967
1940 Canberra Times 30 Sept. 3/2 He went to the aid of two women against a gunman in a residential in South Brisbane last night.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xxxvi. 351 Margot took down from Stella the address of the residential where she and Dorsie were staying.
1973 Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 1450/1 The..premises..have been an inconspicuous residential for the past three years.
2001 D. H. Childress Lost Cities & Anc. Myst. S. Amer. (ed. 10) viii. 178 ‘The cheap residentials are down here,’ he grinned, emphasizing the word, ‘cheap.’
Compounds
residential care n. †(a) care of a residence (obsolete); (b) health and social care provided in a residential institution, typically for people who are unable to live independently.
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1839 C. Otway Tour in Connaught viii. 193 The large demesne of Mr. St. George, which..altogether bespeaks the residential care of an intelligent and improving landlord.
1895 N. Kerr in T. L. Stedman 20th Cent. Pract. III. 86 The expense involved in prolonged residential care under special remedial conditions.
1961 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 76 158 In addition to day care for local retarded children, these half-way houses would provide residential care for patients who might benefit from being near their families.
1998 Community Care 5 Feb. 58/2 (advt.) This establishment, which provides residential care for 27 elderly frail service users is situated on the outskirts of Crawley.
residential home n. an institution providing residential accommodation, esp. one which provides health and social care for people who are unable to live independently; cf. home n.1 7.
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1893 Times 7 Dec. 7/6 The Duchess of Portland opened a recreation room yesterday afternoon at the Residential Home for Nurses.
1899 Hansard's Parl. Deb. 4th Ser. 73 397/1 For such children proper training is recommended in a small residential home under medical care.
1949 Lancet 11 June 1017/1 These, for the most part, could be discharged home or accommodated in residential homes for the aged.
1998 Lionheart Rev. 1997 (R.I.C.S.) 3/1 Clifford is under pressure to move to..a residential home for younger people with disabilities where care staff can assist him on-site.
residential hotel n. a hotel, esp. one consisting of serviced apartments, in which guests stay on a long-term basis.
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1865 Leeds Mercury 11 Feb. 6/3 (advt.) Eight per cent debentures... This first-class residential hotel, situate on freehold ground in the best part of Dover, is advancing towards completion.
1923 W. J. Locke Moordius & Co. xxiii. 308 An untidy boarding-house in Torrington Square, Bloomsbury, which called itself a Residential Hotel.
2008 New Yorker 14 Jan. 40/2 Built as the Château Elysée, a long-term residential hotel for movie stars, it is considered by preservationists to be one of the city's grandest Norman-revival buildings.
residential school n. a school at which pupils are resident, a boarding school; spec. (a) Canadian a government-supported boarding school for American Indian and Inuit children (now historical); (b) a boarding school for children in need of special support, such as those with a disability or behavioural difficulties.
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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > boarding school
charge-house1598
pensiona1652
tabling school1660
boarding school1677
board-school1740
pensionnat1840
residential school1876
pension-school1902
1876 Times 8 Dec. 3/6 The terrible epidemics of ophthalmia from which so many residential schools have suffered.
1888 in J. C. Gordon Educ. Deaf Children (1892) ii. 33/1 In residential schools they are only mixing among the deaf.
1914 D. C. Scott in A. Shortt & A. G. Doughty Canada & its Provinces VII. 616 It includes..the substitution of Christian ideals of conduct and morals for aboriginal conceptions of both. To this end the curriculum in residential schools has been simplified.
1985 P. W. On & C. H. Persell in P. W. Cookson & C. H. Persell Preparing for Power 3 Only 20 to 30 percent of those [sc. American high school students] are enrolled in private residential schools.
1991 Wicazo Sa Rev. Fall 72 The Indian residential school, where Native youths were to have been re-created in Euro-Canadian images.
1998 Community Care 5 Feb. 52/3 (advt.) Cotsbrook is a residential school for 18 emotionally and behaviourally disturbed young people.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† residentialadj.2
Obsolete. rare.
Left as a sediment or residue.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [adjective] > of or relating to chemical processes (general) > left as a residuum after a
residential1651
residuary1735
residual1758
1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋213 As if the whole heap of evill were taken away at once,..but the good had been residentiall about the parenchymatick Laboratorie of the Liver.
1725 J. Sedgwick New Treat. Liquors xix. 388 The Stomach is consentaneously weakned:..Malt Liquors staying too long in the first Passages, and added to a residential Fuel, are pretty generally convertible.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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