NEW TOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does new town mean? 

• NEW TOWN (noun)
  The noun NEW TOWN has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: NEW TOWN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW TOWN (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)

 Context examples 

But the beauty and regularity of the new town of Edinburgh, its romantic castle and its environs, the most delightful in the world, Arthur’s Seat, St. Bernard’s Well, and the Pentland Hills, compensated him for the change and filled him with cheerfulness and admiration.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)