New town

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A planned community or urban development area.

    "The government's New Towns Taskforce has also published a report listing Crews Hill, on the Hertford Loop used by Moorgate services, on a shortlist of 12 potential new towns."

  2. 2
    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 wordnet
  3. 3
    A town built to address housing shortages after World War II. UK
  4. 4
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see new, town.
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A suburb of Ashford, Kent, England, south-east of the town centre (OS grid ref TR0141). Also spelt Newtown.

    "The autumn of the year 1850 also saw the establishment of the Carriage & Wagon Department at Ashford, by which time the adjacent railway village had been extended by another sixty houses. This village at first was known as Alfred Town but later became Ashford New Town."

  2. 2
    A suburb of the City of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
  3. 3
    A suburb of Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Synonyms

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human settlement

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"The government's New Towns Taskforce has also published a report listing Crews Hill, on the Hertford Loop used by Moorgate services, on a shortlist of 12 potential new towns."

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