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A suburban, exurban, or urban community that is primarily or exclusively residential, as due to zoning, from which most of the workforce commutes out to earn their livelihood; often a suburb of a nearby metropolis that workers travel to daily.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: urban studies
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a community where many commuters live
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: suburb, suburbia, suburban area
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Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
睡城
— residential urban community of a nearby metropolis
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Czech:
satelitní obec
— residential urban community of a nearby metropolis
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Czech:
satelitní město
— residential urban community of a nearby metropolis
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Dutch:
slaapstad
— residential urban community of a nearby metropolis
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Finnish:
nukkumalähiö
— residential urban community of a nearby metropolis
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French:
cité-dortoir
— residential urban community of a nearby metropolis
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French:
ville-dortoir
— residential urban community of a nearby metropolis
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French:
village-dortoir
— residential urban community of a nearby metropolis
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German:
Trabantenstadt
— residential urban community of a nearby metropolis
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German:
Trabantensiedlung
— residential urban community of a nearby metropolis
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German:
Schlafstadt
— residential urban community of a nearby metropolis
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Japanese:
ベッドタウン
(beddo taun)
— residential urban community of a nearby metropolis
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Korean:
베드타운
(bedeutaun)
— residential urban community of a nearby metropolis
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Norwegian Bokmål:
sovekommune
— residential urban community of a nearby metropolis
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Norwegian Bokmål:
bokommune
— residential urban community of a nearby metropolis
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Norwegian Bokmål:
drabantkommune
— residential urban community of a nearby metropolis
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Polish:
miasto-sypialnia
— residential urban community of a nearby metropolis
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Portuguese:
cidade-dormitório
— residential urban community of a nearby metropolis
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Russian:
спа́льный райо́н
(spálʹnyj rajón)
— residential urban community of a nearby metropolis
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Spanish:
ciudad dormitorio
— residential urban community of a nearby metropolis
