POPULATED AREA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does populated area mean? 

• POPULATED AREA (noun)
  The noun POPULATED AREA has 1 sense:

1. a geographical area constituting a city or town

  Familiarity information: POPULATED AREA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POPULATED AREA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A geographical area constituting a city or town

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

populated area; urban area

Hypernyms ("populated area" is a kind of...):

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "populated area"):

common; commons; green; park (a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "populated area"):

megalopolis (a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns))

conurbation; sprawl; urban sprawl (an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities)

municipality (an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government)

new town (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)

barrio (an urban area in a Spanish-speaking country)

Instance hyponyms:

Rustbelt (urban areas in New England and Midwest characterized by concentrations of declining industries (steel or textiles))

Twin Cities (nickname for Saint Paul and Minneapolis)

 Context examples 

If an earthquake occurs in a populated area, it may cause property damage, injuries, and even deaths.

(Earthquakes, Federal Emergency Management Agency)

Astronomers have uncovered a near-record breaking supermassive black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, in an unlikely place: in the center of a galaxy in a sparsely populated area of the universe.

(Behemoth Black Hole Found in an Unlikely Place, NASA)