Two brothels in Amsterdam's red-light district.
From red, light and district. Referring to the red lights that were used as signs for brothels.
red-light district (plural red-light districts)
- A part of an urban area where prostitution and sex-oriented businesses are concentrated.
area of prostitution
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 紅燈區／红灯区 (zh) (hóngdēngqū), 風月區／风月区 (fēngyuèqū), 風化區／风化区 (fēnghuàqū)
- Dutch: rosse buurt f, rodelampjesbuurt f, hoerenbuurt (nl) f, tippelzone (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: ruĝluma areo
- Estonian: punaste laternate kvartal
- Finnish: punaisten lyhtyjen alue (fi)
- French: quartier chaud m, red light (fr) m, quartier des putes m
- German: Rotlichtbezirk (de) m, Straßenstrich (de) m, Rotlichtviertel (de) n
- Greek: συνοικία με οίκους ανοχής f (synoikía me oíkous anochís)
- Hungarian: vörös lámpás negyed, piros lámpás negyed
- Icelandic: vændishúshverfi n
- Indonesian: lokalisasi (id) (lit. "localization")
- Italian: quartiere a luci rossi m
- Japanese: 歓楽街 (ja) (かんらくがい, kanrakugai), 風俗街 (ふうぞくがい, fūzokugai)
- Korean: 홍등가(紅燈街) (ko) (hongdeungga), 공창가(公娼街) (gongchangga)
- Macedonian: резил сокак m (rezil sokak)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bordellkvarter n
- Polish: dzielnica czerwonych latarni (pl) f
- Portuguese: zona de meretrício f
- Russian: у́лица кра́сных фонаре́й f (úlica krásnyx fonaréj), кварта́л кра́сных фонаре́й m (kvartál krásnyx fonaréj)
- Scottish Gaelic: ceàrn dearg m
- Spanish: zona roja f
- Swedish: bordellkvarter n
- Ukrainian: кварта́л черво́них ліхтарі́в m (kvartál červónyx lixtarív)
- Vietnamese: phố đèn đỏ (lit. "red light street")
- Welsh: ardal golau coch (cy) f
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