housing estate en · NOUN
Meanings
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A group of often architecturally similar buildings constructed at the same time, primarily for residential accommodation.
That project would mean reinstating 5½ miles of decommissioned line between Tavistock, where a new single-platform railway station would be built alongside the 750-home housing estate currently under construction, and Bere Alston.
2021 November 17, Andrew Mourant, “Okehampton: a new dawn for Dartmoor”, in RAIL, number 944, page 43:Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt.
2014 August 23, Neil Hegarty, “Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney, review: 'a necessary corrective' [print version: Re-Joycing in Dublin, p. R25]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):She suggested he was destroying all Sarkozy had achieved in proving that a traditional, Catholic, rightwing area could vote for an ethnic-minority candidate such as her, from a poor housing estate in the provinces, the Muslim child of illiterate north African parents. She vowed to "resist" Fillon.
2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in The Guardian:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| housing estates | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
industrial estate · subdivision · council estate · sink estate · council housing estate
Translations (24)
mk компле́кс (group of buildings) · pl osiedle (group of buildings) · sk sídlisko (group of buildings) · fr lotissement (group of buildings) · es gran conjunto (group of buildings) · fi aluerakennuskohde (group of buildings) · uk житлови́й ко́мплекс (group of buildings) · nn bustadfelt (group of buildings) · rue сідлі́ско (group of buildings) · es urbanización (group of buildings) · pt conjunto habitacional (group of buildings) · pl osiedle mieszkaniowe (group of buildings) · es ensemble (group of buildings) · ga eastát (group of buildings) · ca urbanització (group of buildings) · gd ionad-thaighean (group of buildings) · ga eastát tithíochta (group of buildings) · nl woonwijk (group of buildings) · de Siedlung (group of buildings) · hu lakótelep (group of buildings) · cs sídliště (group of buildings) · de Wohnsiedlung (group of buildings) · fr grand ensemble (group of buildings) · nb boligfelt (group of buildings)