URBAN AREA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does urban area mean? 

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

1. a geographical area constituting a city or town

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• URBAN 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 ("urban area" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "urban 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 "urban 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)

Antonym:

rural area (an area outside of cities and towns)

 Context examples 

A large and densely populated urban area; a city specified in an address.

(City, NCI Thesaurus)

In a typical urban area with a high level of background air pollution — for example, around 15 micrograms of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) per cubic metre, or a nitrogen dioxide concentration around 33 micrograms per cubic metre — an extra 300 trees per square kilometre was associated with around 50 fewer emergency asthma cases per 100,000 residents over the 15 year study period.

(Asthma Attacks Reduced in Tree-Lined Urban Neighborhoods, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)