Town
Town noun - A thickly settled, highly populated area.
Usage example: after driving for miles with nothing but corn and wheat fields to look at, we were relieved to roll into a small town and have a bite to eat at the local diner
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Synonyms for Town
Urban sprawl and town are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Urban sprawl" instead a noun "Town".
Urban sprawl
Urban sprawl noun - An aggregation or continuous network of urban communities.
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Synonyms for Urban sprawl
Town and urban sprawl are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Town" instead a noun phrase "Urban sprawl".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- place and town
- place and urban sprawl
- capital and town
- capital and urban sprawl
- municipality and town
- municipality and urban sprawl
- borough and town
- borough and urban sprawl
- urban area and town
- urban area and urban sprawl
- city and town
- city and urban sprawl
- metropolis and town
- metropolis and urban sprawl
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Mundane Afterlife: Hell is just a rainy twilit town that gives new meaning to "urban sprawl".
Source: Literature / The Great Divorce - Definitely a place with a reputation for being snobbish and pretentious, the county town is Guildford although the county council's headquarters are in London (the north of Surrey is mostly parts of London's urban sprawl which aren't in Greater London).
Source: Useful Notes / Home Counties
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