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Definition of conurbation in English: conurbationnoun ˌkɒnəˈbeɪʃ(ə)nˌkɑnərˈbeɪʃ(ə)n An extended urban area, typically consisting of several towns merging with the suburbs of a central city. the major conurbations of London and Birmingham Example sentencesExamples - It is in the roads leading to the city centre and those carrying traffic past the major conurbation.
- Great cities and conurbations are developed by visionaries who instill pride and optimism in their fellow citizens.
- ‘When Swindon was growing as a new town thousands of young couples were settled in areas to the west and east of the conurbation,’ said Coun Perkins.
- It's likely to be close to a major conurbation with good road and rail links.
- We were promised this super hospital, not just for the city, but for the whole conurbation, because that is what we need.
- Each category of settlement - the hamlets, the villages, the towns, the cities, the conurbations - appears to have its own characteristic scale of distance.
- The area adjoins the Dublin conurbation, and is a designated green belt amenity and agricultural resource base.
- We can learn a great deal from the experience of other major conurbations across Europe.
- The almost relentless growth in property crime of recent decades has affected the whole country - rural areas, small towns, provincial cities, and major conurbations.
- It states that in Africa, Asia and Latin America there are 600 million people living in squatter settlements around conurbations that lack any sanitation infrastructure.
- This established a two-tier system of thirty-nine counties and six metropolitan counties for the major conurbations outside London.
- Areas outside the major conurbations and the corridors linking them are still deprived of much necessary infrastructure.
- ‘They are frequently conurbations or city regions such as Amsterdam, Manchester, Singapore or Silicon Valley,’ he said.
- And we will need a pilot somewhere in the UK - probably in a major conurbation or region of the country.
- Greater Milan is the largest conurbation in Italy (though Rome as a city is larger).
- The two reviews considered health authorities as the unit of analysis, but in cities or conurbations it makes sense to consider whole geographical areas.
- The stars in the sky glowed with an ambience only seen outside the urban conurbations.
- Why are the turnover rates in these three conurbations higher in inner city areas and in teaching trusts and more acute in larger cities, particularly London?
- Manchester is a major city at the heart of a large urban conurbation.
- Developers are looking at big cities and Bradford is a large conurbation.
Synonyms urban area, municipality, borough, township, settlement
Origin Early 20th century: from con- 'together' + Latin urbs, urb- 'city' + -ation. urbane from mid 16th century: This word was first used in the sense ‘urban’; it comes from Latin urbanus ‘belonging to the city’, from urbs ‘city’, the source of urban (early 17th century) and conurbation (early 20th century). Suburban appears in the early 17th century used literally for ‘relating to a suburb’ (an LME word meaning ‘outside the city’). The disparaging sense appears in 1817 with Byron's ‘vulgar, dowdyish, and suburban’.
Definition of conurbation in US English: conurbationnounˌkɑnərˈbeɪʃ(ə)nˌkänərˈbāSH(ə)n An extended urban area, typically consisting of several towns merging with the suburbs of one or more cities. the major conurbations of London and Birmingham Example sentencesExamples - This established a two-tier system of thirty-nine counties and six metropolitan counties for the major conurbations outside London.
- Developers are looking at big cities and Bradford is a large conurbation.
- It's likely to be close to a major conurbation with good road and rail links.
- Each category of settlement - the hamlets, the villages, the towns, the cities, the conurbations - appears to have its own characteristic scale of distance.
- It is in the roads leading to the city centre and those carrying traffic past the major conurbation.
- It states that in Africa, Asia and Latin America there are 600 million people living in squatter settlements around conurbations that lack any sanitation infrastructure.
- Greater Milan is the largest conurbation in Italy (though Rome as a city is larger).
- ‘When Swindon was growing as a new town thousands of young couples were settled in areas to the west and east of the conurbation,’ said Coun Perkins.
- The two reviews considered health authorities as the unit of analysis, but in cities or conurbations it makes sense to consider whole geographical areas.
- Areas outside the major conurbations and the corridors linking them are still deprived of much necessary infrastructure.
- We can learn a great deal from the experience of other major conurbations across Europe.
- Why are the turnover rates in these three conurbations higher in inner city areas and in teaching trusts and more acute in larger cities, particularly London?
- The almost relentless growth in property crime of recent decades has affected the whole country - rural areas, small towns, provincial cities, and major conurbations.
- ‘They are frequently conurbations or city regions such as Amsterdam, Manchester, Singapore or Silicon Valley,’ he said.
- We were promised this super hospital, not just for the city, but for the whole conurbation, because that is what we need.
- Manchester is a major city at the heart of a large urban conurbation.
- Great cities and conurbations are developed by visionaries who instill pride and optimism in their fellow citizens.
- And we will need a pilot somewhere in the UK - probably in a major conurbation or region of the country.
- The area adjoins the Dublin conurbation, and is a designated green belt amenity and agricultural resource base.
- The stars in the sky glowed with an ambience only seen outside the urban conurbations.
Synonyms urban area, municipality, borough, township, settlement
Origin Early 20th century: from con- ‘together’ + Latin urbs, urb- ‘city’ + -ation. |