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Meaning of "subtopia" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SUBTOPIA

Blend of suburb + Utopia.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SUBTOPIA

subtopia  [sʌbˈtəʊpɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUBTOPIA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Subtopia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SUBTOPIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of subtopia in the English dictionary

The definition of subtopia in the dictionary is suburban development that encroaches on rural areas yet appears to offer the attractions of country life to suburban dwellers.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUBTOPIA


amblyopia
ˌæmblɪˈəʊpɪə
anisometropia
ænˌaɪsəʊməˈtrəʊpɪə
cacotopia
ˌkækəˈtəʊpɪə
cecropia
sɪˈkrəʊpɪə
cornucopia
ˌkɔːnjʊˈkəʊpɪə
diplopia
dɪˈpləʊpɪə
dystopia
dɪsˈtəʊpɪə
ectopia
ɛkˈtəʊpɪə
esotropia
ˌɛsəˈtrəʊpɪə
Ethiopia
ˌiːθɪˈəʊpɪə
exotropia
ˌeksəˈtrəʊpɪə
hemianopia
ˌhɛmɪænˈəʊpɪə
heterotopia
ˌhɛtərəʊˈtəʊpɪə
hyperopia
ˌhaɪpəˈrəʊpɪə
myopia
maɪˈəʊpɪə
photopia
fəʊˈtəʊpɪə
pornotopia
ˌpɔːnəˈtəʊpɪə
presbyopia
ˌprɛzbɪˈəʊpɪə
scotopia
skəˈtəʊpɪə
Utopia
juːˈtəʊpɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUBTOPIA

subtitles
subtitling
subtitular
subtle
subtleness
subtleties
subtlety
subtly
subtone
subtonic
subtopian
subtopic
subtorrid
subtotal
subtotalled
subtotalling
subtotally
subtract
subtracter
subtraction

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUBTOPIA

ametropia
anopia
asthenopia
atropia
deuteranopia
emmetropia
haplopia
hemeralopia
hemiopia
hypermetropia
isometropia
meropia
nyctalopia
palinopia
protanopia
senopia
tritanopia

Synonyms and antonyms of subtopia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «subtopia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SUBTOPIA

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

Translator English - Chinese

subtopia
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Subtopia
570 millions of speakers

English

subtopia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

subtopia
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

subtopia
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Subtopia
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

subtopia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কূপমণ্ডূকতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Subtopia
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Subtopia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Subtopia
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

subtopia
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

subtopia
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Subtopia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

subtopia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

subtopia
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उपक्षेत्र
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

varoş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

subtopia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Subtopia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Subtopia
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

subtopia
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Subtopia
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

subtopia
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Subtopia
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Subtopia
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of subtopia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBTOPIA»

The term «subtopia» is normally little used and occupies the 126.815 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBTOPIA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «subtopia» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «subtopia» 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 subtopia

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUBTOPIA»

Discover the use of subtopia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to subtopia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Subtopia
1977. The fibro-belt suburbs of Melbourne's south.
Andrew McCann, 2011
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Invincible Green Suburbs, Brave New Towns: Social Change and ...
'Subtopia' signified neither the Utopian New Jerusalem promised by politicians and planners in 1945, nor the urban nightmare of 'dystopia'. England was, instead, being reduced to 'a universal subtopia, a mean and middle state, neither town ...
Mark Clapson, 1998
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Subtopia, exurbia, utopia
A. POINT. ABOUT. MARGARET. SUBTOPIA,. EXURBIA,. UTOPIA. Much more here than meets the taste! The hot one's ... The new ones are "Subtopia" and " Exurbia," the old one, "Utopia" — which hasn't been bruited much since H. G. ...
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Writing the Everyday: Australian Literature and the Limits ...
Andrew McCann Introduction: Subtopia, or the Problem of Suburbia SUBURBIA has been a neuralgic point in debates about Australian culture and Australian identity since the end of the nineteenth century. Louis Esson's 1911 diatribe against ...
Andrew McCann, 1998
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The Dictionary of Human Geography
... the POLICE have become increasingly militarized, and so has architecture - to such a degree, indeed, that there is now a critical online 'field guide to military urbanism' (Subtopia, at http:l/subtopia.blogspot.com: see also Caldeira, 1999; Low ...
Derek Gregory, Ron Johnston, Geraldine Pratt, 2011
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The Compact City: A Sustainable Urban Form?
The planners were largely to blameforthe promotion of 'subtopia' (suburb+utopia) because of theiradherence to a policyoflow density dispersal, on the groundsthat 'England was ofunlimited size' (p. 367). He was concerned that subtopia ...
Elizabeth Burton, Mike Jenks, Katie Williams, 2003
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Exploring Suburbia: The Suburbs in the Contemporary ...
The architecture critic Deyan Sudjic states that the term “subtopia” was used in the 1950s by The Architectural Review in what he describes as their “war” on “the suburban dream” (12). Discussing the novel's title, McCann states: “'Subtopia' is ...
Nathanael O'Reilly, 2012
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Between the City and the Bush: Suburbia in the Contemporary ...
CHAPTER FIVE A NEW GENERATION PERPETUATES THE ANTI-SUBURBAN TRADITION: MELISSA LUCASHENKO'S STEAM PIGS (1997) AND A.L. MCCANN'S SUBTOPIA (2005)64 Drugs, Booze, Violence and Indigenous Identity: ...
Nathanael David O'Reilly, 2008
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Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City
11. w. SUBTOPIA. Underground is no less mysterious than undersea, and we have had frequent imaginative accounts of this underground. The Italian novelist ltalo Calvino has described in Invisible Cities the existence of an underground ...
Qizhang Dong, 2013
10
Cool Water
Subtopia. “I broke my arm, Daddy,” Daisy says from the couch as Blaine and Shiloh come through the door. Shiloh is in front, and then Blaine, carrying the rifle . It's past the children's bedtime, that of the youngest ones at least, but Vicki has let ...
Dianne Warren, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUBTOPIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term subtopia is used in the context of the following news items.
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SUBTOPIA I BOTKYRKA VILL GÖRA SVERIGE BÄST I VÄRLDEN …
Den 29 september arrangeras branschmässan Studiobar i Hangaren Subtopia i Botkyrka söder om Stockholm. Mässan är gränsöverskridande och skapar en ... «Mynewsdesk, Jul 15»
2
50 idémakare ska äta middag med familjer i Botkyrka”
I samarbete med European Cultural Foundation (ECF) arrangerar kulturklustret Subtopia i Botkyrka en stor europeisk demokratikonferens i höst. I morgon tisdag ... «Dagens Nyheter, Jun 15»
3
Ignore Montmartre and head to the libraries: an alternative guide to …
... and viewers to the qualities of what was around them and to denounce the reduction of place to "a uniform and mediocre pattern", which he called "Subtopia". «Newsweek, Jun 15»
4
Do British towns look too similar?
Six decades ago a critic launched a withering attack on the tendency toward a bland "subtopia" in British towns. April 1955 witnessed a changing of the guard. «BBC News, Feb 15»
5
Academics are campaigning to bring back so-called dead words …
... "lost words" to be resurrected in 2015: caterwaul, concinnity, knavery, mélange, rapscallion, opsimath, obambulate, philistine, flapdoodle and subtopia. «The Independent, Jan 15»
6
Word Warriors: Vocabulary puritans urged to focus on bringing back …
It includes rarely heard words such as “opsimath” and “subtopia” in an effort to draw attention to what writer and project leader Christopher Scott Williams calls ... «The Independent, Jan 15»
7
Obambulate today? WSU wants words added back to usage
Subtopia. Monotonous urban sprawl of standardized buildings. As the city grew outward, our charming small town became a subtopia overrun with franchise ... «Detroit Free Press, Jan 15»
8
Subtopia utsatt för "smash-and-grab-kupp"
Kulturklustret Subtopia i Alby, Botkyrka, utsattes tidigt på tisdagsmorgonen för en så kallad smash-and-grab-kupp. Kulturklustret Subtopia i Alby, Botkyrka, ... «Dagens Nyheter, Dec 14»
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Product Article: Connecting the Home – the age of fibre has arrived
... super-speed broadband network for the City of York, independent of BT's infrastructure; and just announced, Subtopia is planning to offer FTTP at Gbit speeds ... «HiddenWires, Nov 14»
10
Book Club review: Ian Nairn
For this condition he coined the term Subtopia, which would later become “compact cities” for Richard Rogers and peers. Two recently published books ... «Building Design, Oct 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Subtopia [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/subtopia>. Apr 2024 ».
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