Conurbation vs Suburb - What's the difference?
conurbation | suburb |
a continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl
The area on the periphery of a city or large town.
* Hallam
(by extension) The outer part; the environment.
* Jeremy Taylor
* Milton
(AU, NZ) Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.
As nouns the difference between conurbation and suburb
is that conurbation is a continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl while suburb is the area on the periphery of a city or large town.conurbation
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(wikipedia conurbation) (en noun)Usage notes
A Dictionary of Geography'' distinguishes between ''uninuclear conurbations'' (conurbations which have developed around one urban area) and ''polynuclear conurbations (conurbations which have developed from the aggregation of several urban areas).References
* 2005, Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised) , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198610572 * 2005, John Scott and Gordon Marshall, A Dictionary of Sociology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198609876 * 2004, Susan Mayhew, A Dictionary of Geography , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198606737suburb
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(en noun)- [London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous.
- the suburbs of sorrow
- the suburb of their straw-built citadel