Usually means: Large urban area, merged cities.
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  1. conurbation: Merriam-Webster
  2. conurbation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. conurbation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. conurbation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. conurbation: Vocabulary.com
  6. conurbation: Wordnik
  7. conurbation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. conurbation: Wiktionary
  9. conurbation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. conurbation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. conurbation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. conurbation: Dictionary.com
  13. Conurbation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. conurbation: Rhymezone
  15. conurbation: FreeDictionary.org
  16. conurbation: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. conurbation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. conurbation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. conurbation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. conurbation: Encyclopedia

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  1. conurbation: A Word A Day

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  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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noun:  A continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl.

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