subdivision

English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ division.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌbdɪvɪʒən/

Noun

subdivision (countable and uncountable, plural subdivisions)

1. (countable, uncountable) A division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided.
2. (countable) Such a piece that has been divided.

   Work on one subdivision at a time.

3. (countable) A parcel of land that has been divided into lots.
4. (countable) A group of houses created by the same builder or in the same general area.

   They're putting in a new subdivision out past Black Ranch Road.

5. (Philippines) A gated community.
   • 1999, Vicente L. Rafael, Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam, SEAP Publications (→ISBN), page 81:

     ... By the 1970s, cattle rustling had fallen by the wayside, as tractors replaced carabaos and industrial estates and residential subdivisions supplanted rice fields as the mainstays of Cavite's suburban northern towns.

   • 2014, Rodelio B. Carating, Raymundo G. Galanta, Clarita D. Bacatio, The Soils of the Philippines, Springer Science & Business (→ISBN), page 51:

     As the farms give way to the residential subdivisions and industrial estates, the centuries-old traditional Filipino houses, slightly raised above grounds and standing on stilts, are abandoned in the quest for more living space.

Derived terms

• subdiv.

Translations

division into smaller pieces of something

• Finnish: jakaminen (fi), jako (fi), osittaminen (fi); lohkominen (fi) (land surveying)
• Galician: subdivisión f
• Maori: wāhanga, kārawarawatanga
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• Romanian: subdiviziune (ro) f
• Scots: subdiveesion

such a piece that has been divided

• Finnish: jae (fi)
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• Maori: kārawarawatanga

parcel of land

• Estonian: allüksus
• Finnish: tonttimaa
• Hungarian: alosztály (hu), felosztás (hu)
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• Ido: subdividuro (io)
• Maori: tekiona
• Spanish: lotificación f

group of houses

• Estonian: allüksus
• Finnish: talot (fi) pl
• Hungarian: felosztás (hu), alosztály (hu)
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• Ido: subdividuro (io)
• Spanish: lotificación f

Verb

subdivision (third-person singular simple present subdivisions, present participle subdivisioning, simple past and past participle subdivisioned)

1. (uncommon) To separate something into smaller pieces.

Translations

to separate into smaller pieces

• Finnish: jakaa (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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French

Noun

subdivision f (plural subdivisions)

1. subdivision