adj
Of, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land.
adj
(sociology) Showing a negative view of cities or city life
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A particular geographic region.
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Synonym of bedroom community
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(neologism, informal, urban studies) A rapidly expanding suburb.
adj
(of an area of land) Having buildings, especially having residences and high population density.
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(colloquial, chiefly in the plural) A suburb.
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A subsidiary or subordinate town
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Synonym of central business district
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Obsolete spelling of city [A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.]
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Obsolete spelling of city [A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.]
n
Obsolete form of city. [A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.]
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(with the definite article) Any of several other cities in metropolitan areas (such as San Francisco).
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A person who lives in a city
adj
Relating to the city or town rather than the countryside.
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Synonym of bedroom community
adj
Relating to or characteristic of a conurbation.
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Conurbations as represented or encapsulated by their typical qualities or characteristics.
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(Britain, historical) A person with rights between those of naturalized citizen and resident alien (roughly permanent resident), obtained through letters patent.
n
A suburban or rural settlement housing city workers who commute to work.
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A person from downstate; usually specifically a person from downstate New York.
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(US, urban studies) A concentration of business, shopping, and entertainment locations outside a traditional downtown (or central business district), in what was previously a residential or rural area.
n
A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.
adj
(obsolete, nonce word) Turned into, or reduced to, a village.
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(US) A suburban residential and business area with a notable cluster of a particular ethnic minority population.
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A region of urban sprawl without the traditional qualities of a city.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or residing in an exurb
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A residential area beyond the suburbs.
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An outlying part of a city or town, beyond the walls; a suburb, especially of Paris.
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The periphery of a town or city (or other area).
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(urban studies) An area of agricultural land around an urban area that is protected from large-scale housing.
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(US, informal) The suburban areas where hipsters live.
adj
(US) Existing or occurring within a single US state.
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The interior, central part of a city, as opposed to the suburbs
adj
Of, pertaining to, or situated in the central part of a city, especially an older, populous area of low-income or immigrant families.
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A person who lives near a given place.
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A person from a particular area; a local
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An area of population usually with a central or core city and surrounding towns or suburbs.
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(UK) A subdivision of a metropolitan county, having the status of a borough.
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A microdistrict (residential complex) in a current or former communist country.
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A smaller developed area within a city that boasts all of the traditional features and facilities of a city.
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A small group of houses all constructed by the same builder in the same area.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see model, village.
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(Australia) The residential suburbs that have a high concentration of families mortgaging their homes.
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Exurbia: the country beyond the city.
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A more remote part of a town or city; the periphery, environs; a suburb.
n
Small towns that lie beyond city suburbs, viewed collectively.
adj
Immediately adjoining an urban area; between the suburbs and the countryside.
adj
Surrounding a metropolis
adj
Alternative spelling of peri-urban [Immediately adjoining an urban area; between the suburbs and the countryside.]
n
The outskirts of any place; an adjacent district; the environs or neighborhood.
n
Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.
adj
Of or pertaining to a location which has both urban and rural characteristics.
n
An overlapping area between city and countryside which has some characteristics of each.
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A person who lives in a rurban area; someone who lives in the country but works in the city.
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A self-contained city, as opposed to a mere suburb, on the periphery of a metropolitan area.
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A self-contained town, as opposed to a mere suburb, on the periphery of a metropolitan area.
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A homogeneous sprawl of urban and suburban developments.
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A small (generally rural) town.
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(US, humorous, derogatory) The suburbs, particularly those which are affluent.
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A subdivision of a barrio, or subminor civil division in Puerto Rico and other Spanish-speaking lands.
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A subdivision of a city.
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(countable) A group of houses created by the same builder or in the same general area.
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(slang) Short for Subiaco, Western Australia.
adj
Smaller, or less important than a metropolis
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Sprawling suburbs, collectively.
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A person who lives in a suburb.
adj
(British spelling) That has become a suburb or suburban area.
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Suburban lifestyles and attitudes generally
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suburban sprawl; excessive construction of suburbs
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The quality of being suburban.
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The quality of being suburban.
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(originally Britain) The suburbs as a whole and all that characterizes or pertains to them; (sometimes derogatory) the suburbs as encapsulated or represented by the typical characteristics or qualities of the people living there, especially complacency, conformity, conservativeness, dullness, etc.
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A cluster of houses that forms part of a village
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One who lives in a suburb.
adj
(ecology) That lives (predominantly) within an urban ecosystem
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An exurb that has developed the amenities and industries normally associated with a city.
adj
Being or relating to a technoburb.
n
Obsolete spelling of town [A settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city, historically enclosed by a fence or walls, with total populations ranging from several hundred to more than a hundred thousand (as of the early 21st century)]
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Any more urbanized centre than the place of reference.
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(chiefly UK, idiomatic, sometimes capitalized) On the one hand, the members of the city, borough, or similar community near a university and, on the other hand, the students and faculty of the university itself, especially when understood as rivals in a state of tension or conflict.
n
Obsolete form of town. [A settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city, historically enclosed by a fence or walls, with total populations ranging from several hundred to more than a hundred thousand (as of the early 21st century)]
n
The environs of a city, town, or village that are part of the main community through common economic and cultural activities.
n
(chiefly Canada, US) the residential part of a city, away from the commercial center
adj
Related to the (or any) city.
n
(historical) a type of local government district, which was created in 1894 in urbanised areas of England and Wales outside boroughs, and in 1898 in Ireland. Abolished in 1974 except those in the Republic of Ireland, which were retitled as towns in 2002.
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(colloquial) One accustomed to a city or urban lifestyle or unsuited to life in the country.
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Items, objects, and equipment installed in public areas, such as urban parks, and streets, and including such elements as traffic signs, park benches, bollards, and public fountains.
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(urban studies) Urban land that has reverted to green space.
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(urban studies) An unplanned, disorganized growth of housing etc. on the edge of a city.
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Synonym of urban-rural gmina
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A type of gmina comprised of rural communities and at least one settlement with city rights.
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an official designation for a semi-urban settlement (or a former town) in the Soviet Union, Poland (formerly), Bulgaria (formerly) and in 10 post-Soviet republics—Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
n
Someone who lives in a city or similar urban area.
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(sometimes humorous) A notional disease associated with urban living or habits.
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a sociologist who studies the problems of living in cities and towns
adj
That prefers to live in a town or city
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The world of suburban villas.
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A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
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The belief that society should be divided into small independent village communities.
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Someone who endorses development (especially the construction of more housing) near them.
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(informal, neologism, urban studies) A very rapidly expanding suburb.
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