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Definition: Conurbation |
ConurbationNoun1. An aggregation or continuous network of urban communities. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | The area that surrounds an urban settlement which functions as the regional centre. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A term coined by Patrick Geddes to describe the continuously built-up area formed by the coalescence of several, originally separate, expanding settlements. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Public Administration | The complex or system of a town, its components, urban extensions, with suburbs, shopping centre, station, church, club, green spaces, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: ConurbationSynonym: urban sprawl (n). (additional references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Conurbation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Conurbation" is used about 88 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 88 | 35,154 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "conurbation": conurbation-wide. | |
Ending with "conurbation": inner-conurbation. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
conurbation | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "conurbation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | mìstská aglomerace. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | område med koncentreret bymæssig bebyggelse (agglomeration, city region), konurbation, bysammenvoksning, byområde (agglomeration, city region, urban area), byagglomeration. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | conurbatie, stedelijke agglomeratie (agglomeration, city region), stedelijk concentratiegebied (agglomeration, city region), randstad, agglomeratie (agglomeration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kaupunkikokonaisuus, kaupunkialue. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | conurbation, zone de concentration urbaine, agglomération (conglomeration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ballungsgebiet (agglomeration area), Ballungsraum (agglomeration, megalopolis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συμπόλιση, πολεοδομικό συγκρότημα, αστικό κέντρο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | városhalmaz, elvárosiasodott peremtelepülés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | conurbazione, zona di inglobamento urbano (agglomeration, city region), zona di concentrazione urbana (agglomeration, city region), zona di addensamento urbano (agglomeration, city region). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | covaljys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onurbationcay conurbação. (various references) большой город со всеми пригородами. (various references) širenje gradova. (various references) conurbación, aglomeración urbana. (various references) tätortsregion, tätortregion, storstadsregion, konurbation. (various references) bileşik kent, şehirlerin genişleyip birleşmesi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "conurbation": conurbations. (additional references) | |
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"Conurbation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: centuriation, cornurbation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-n-n-o-o-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: incubator. | |
-3 letters: abortion, conation, continua, continuo, countian, couranto, nonactor. | |
-4 letters: actinon, auction, biotron, boronic, botanic, caribou, carotin, cartoon, caution, contain, contour, coranto, corbina, cornuto, courant, crouton, curtain, nocturn, oration, rainout, robotic, ruction, taborin, touraco, unction, unicorn. | |
-5 letters: action, anoint, anuric, aortic, aroint, atonic, bicorn, bicron, bonaci, bonita, bonito, bouton, bronco, brucin, bunion, burton, cannot. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-i-n-n-o-o-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: conurbations. | |
+5 letters: pronounceability. | |
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