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subdivision

  • /ˈsʌbdɪvɪʒən/
  • /sʌbdiˈviʃon/ Philippines

noun subdivisions · subdiv. · sbdv. · subd.

  1. countable, uncountable A division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided. Formosa: Prewar conditions in Formosa were described in an article in FOREIGN COMMERCE WEEKLY of January 1, 1944. According to an announcement of the official Chinese News Service, there are to be 8 chief administrative subdivisions of Formosa. Although it is not known that their boundary lines will
  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, countable, uncountable A gated community located within a barangay. ... 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.

verb subdivisions · subdivisioning · subdivisioned · subdiv. · sbdv.

  1. uncommon To separate something into smaller pieces.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: division, partition, partitioning, segmentation, sectionalization, section, subsection, arm, branch, compartmentalization, compartmentalisation, disaggregation, split, enumerator, replicate, neighborhood

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noun division into smaller pieces of something

Españolsubdivisión
हिन्दीउपखंड upkhaṇḍ
Portuguêssubdivisão
DeutschUnterteilung, Unterteilen, Unterabteilung, Unterabteilen, Subdivision
Românăsubdiviziune

noun such a piece that has been divided

हिन्दीखण्डित khaṇḍit
Русскийподразделе́ние podrazdelénije

noun parcel of land

Españollotificación

noun group of houses

Españollotificación

verb to separate into smaller pieces

Deutschunterabteilen, unterteilen

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@misc{subdivision_2026,
  title = {subdivision},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/subdivision},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}