Skip to Content

English Club : Learn English : Vocabulary
Vocabulary : Idioms : R : red light district

red light district

Meaning: A red light district is the area of a town or city in which prostitutes work.

For example:

  • Mark told us about the red light district in Amsterdam, and how the women there sit behind windows waiting for customers.

  • Towns and cities all over the world have always had red light districts.

Quick Quiz:

They went to the red light district in order to
  1. buy lighting supplies
  2. meet prostitutes
  3. have the tail-lights on their car repaired