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Meaning of "conurban" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CONURBAN

conurban  [kɒnˈɜːb ən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONURBAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Conurban is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CONURBAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of conurban in the English dictionary

The definition of conurban in the dictionary is relating to a conurbation.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONURBAN


adoption
əˈdɒpʃ ən
Caernarvon
kɑːˈnɑːv ən
connexion
kəˈnɛkʃ ən
cremation
krɪˈmeɪʃ ən
decomposition
ˌdiːkɒmpəˈzɪʃ ən
dehydration
ˌdiːhaɪˈdreɪʃ ən
depletion
dɪˈpliːʃ ən
disruption
dɪsˈrʌpʃ ən
dissemination
dɪˌsɛmɪˈneɪʃ ən
dobson
ˈdɒbs ən
encryption
ɪnˈkrɪpʃ ən
eruption
ɪˈrʌpʃ ən
escalation
ˌɛskəˈleɪʃ ən
evacuation
ɪˌvækjʊˈeɪʃ ən
evaporation
ɪˌvæpəˈreɪʃ ən
exemption
ɪɡˈzɛmpʃ ən
exploitation
ˌɛksplɔɪˈteɪʃ ən
fabrication
ˌfæbrɪˈkeɪʃ ən
fascination
ˌfæsɪˈneɪʃ ən
first-person
ˌfɜːstˈpɜːs ən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONURBAN

contumelious
contumeliously
contumeliousness
contumely
contund
contuse
contusion
contusioned
contusive
conundrum
conurbation
conurbia
conure
conus
convalesce
convalescence
convalescency
convalescent
convalescently
convect

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONURBAN

antiurban
Churban
corban
Durban
exurban
Hurban
interurban
nonurban
rurban
semiurban
slurban
suburban
turban
urban

Synonyms and antonyms of conurban in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «conurban» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONURBAN

Find out the translation of conurban to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of conurban from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «conurban» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

conurban
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

conurbana
570 millions of speakers

English

conurban
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

conurban
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

conurban
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

conurban
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

conurban
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

conurban
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

conurbations
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Conurban
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

conurban
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

conurban
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

conurban
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Conurban
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

conurban
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

conurban
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सुशिक्षित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

conurban
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

conurban
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

conurban
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

conurban
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

conurban
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συνοικιακές
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

conurban
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

conurban
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

conurban
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of conurban

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONURBAN»

The term «conurban» is barely ever used and occupies the 206.499 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of conurban
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CONURBAN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «conurban» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «conurban» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about conurban

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONURBAN»

Discover the use of conurban in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to conurban and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Country Planning: The Future of the Rural Regions
An example of this is afforded in the East Midlands study, which, quite correctly, concentrates on the industrial and conurban problem of Leicester and Nottingham, but to the virtual exclusion of any serious discussion of the rural areas to the ...
R. J. Green, 1971
2
Tradition and Transformation: The Argobba of Ethiopia
Chapter Five Regional Economic Transformation and Population Migration The Argobba were and still are people in the process of migration and adaptation in conurban locations. Indeed, their socio-economic position has changed through  ...
Abebe Kifleyesus, 2006
3
Much Governed Nation Pt1
A White Paper followed setting out the government's proposals in more detail.326 It was apparent the government believed the conurban counties were both anachronistic and impediments to public policy. They had been conceived at a time ...
W.H Greenleaf, 2014
4
Much Governed Nation
A White Paper followed setting out the government's proposals in more detail.326 It was apparent the government believed the conurban counties were both anachronistic and impediments to public policy. They had been conceived at a time ...
W. H. Greenleaf, 2003
5
CliffsAP World History
Another urban phenomenon seen in the last decades of the twentieth century was the “megalopolis”—the “conurban” smearing together, as it were, of several large cities into an urban aggregation that can be seen and identified from space.
Fred N Grayson, 2007
6
Controlling London's Growth: Planning the Great Wen, 1940-1960
pronounced in the ring outside the County of London but within the Greater London Conurbation limits. From 1939 to 1948, for example, this Conurban Ring gained more than 200,000 persons and was the only part of the Conurbation to grow.
Donald L. Foley, 1963
7
EDRA.
lrma Elisa Palacios Reyes (Universidad Veracruz, Mexico) [Poster] The worker quarrels, industrial life, and the first colonial route of connection located in the conurban zone of Orizaba, Rio Blanco and Nogales provides a rich symbolic ...
Environmental Design Research Association. Conference, Environmental Design Research Association, Janice M. Bissell
8
Papers
The chief lines of conurban linkage shown in Fig. 2, which are the result of observation and cartographical experiment carried out by the author during recent years, represent virtually continuous non-agricultural development of the landscape ...
University of Edinburgh. Dept. of Geography, 1950
9
When God Comes To Town: Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts
In that same period concepts shifted from 'city' to 'megapolis' and now to ' conurban complex', to denote the multimillion concentrations of people that are rapidly growing, especially in the Third World (Davis 2007). Where towns or cities  ...
Rik Pinxten, Lisa Dikomitis, 2013
10
Poverty in the United Kingdom: A Survey of Household ...
Rural and Urban Differences The percentage of the population in rural areas who were poor or marginally poor was not markedly different from that in urban and conurban areas (Table 15.1). In other respects, there was less evidence of ...
Peter Townsend, 1979

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONURBAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term conurban is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Giant investment in south-western electrical grid
In addition, Caruna will build a new distribution network and renew the above ground cable network in metropolitan and conurban areas. «YLE News, May 14»
2
Oberoi Gurgaon: What could be more luxurious than tranquility in …
If luxury is about context, then what could be more gratifying than driving up through a virtual mini-forest in the conurban sprawl of the National ... «Economic Times, Apr 11»

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« EDUCALINGO. Conurban [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/conurban>. May 2024 ».
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