urban sprawl

1. 1.

   an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities

   Synonymsconurbationsprawl

   Broaderurban area

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Questions about urban sprawl

What does urban sprawl mean?

urban sprawl means "an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities".

What is another word for urban sprawl?

Close synonyms include conurbation, sprawl. 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.

Is urban sprawl a common word?

urban sprawl is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.