urban area

Questions about urban area

What does urban area mean?

urban area means "a geographical area constituting a city or town".

What is another word for urban area?

Close synonyms include populated area. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of urban area?

The recorded antonyms are rural area.

Is urban area a common word?

urban area is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.