subdivide
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌsʌb.dɪˈvaɪd/
Verb
subdivide (third-person singular simple present subdivides, present participle subdividing, simple past and past participle subdivided)
- (transitive, intransitive) To divide into smaller sections.
- (real estate) To divide a plot of land into plots for residences; to convert open land into housing.
- This used to be farmland before developers bought it and subdivided it.
- 1993, Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town, National Park Service, 3:
- Several local families recorded plots of land as additions to the town's territory and subdivided them into house lots.
- (real estate) To divide a plot of land into plots for residences; to convert open land into housing.
- (transitive, intransitive) To divide divisions into smaller divisions
- Dryden
- The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others.
- Dryden
Translations
To divide into smaller sections
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Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /subˈdiː.wi.de/, [sʊbˈdiː.wɪ.dɛ]
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /subdiˈbide/, [suβðiˈβiðe]
Verb
subdivide
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of subdividir.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of subdividir.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of subdividir.
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