NEW TOWN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A planned urban community created in a rural or undeveloped area and designed to be self-sufficient with its own housing and education and commerce and recreation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("new town" is a kind of...):

populated area; urban area (a geographical area constituting a city or town)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

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