new town
(sometimes initial capital letters) a comprehensively planned, self-sufficient urban community that provides housing, educational, recreational, and commercial facilities and often serves to absorb residents from a nearby overcrowded metropolis.
Origin of new town
1Other definitions for Newtown (2 of 2)
a town in SW Connecticut.
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How to use new town in a sentence
But should the Long Island Indians prevail, an inroad upon the main would bring them dangerously near to the new towns.
A short history of Rhode Island | George Washington GreeneTwo militia companies were formed in Tiverton and one in each of the other new towns.
A short history of Rhode Island | George Washington GreeneThe previous history of the new towns belongs to Massachusetts and Plymouth.
A short history of Rhode Island | George Washington GreeneIn the South, new towns were springing up, anxious to divide distributive trade with the older cotton concentration points.
Railroads: Rates and Regulations | William Z. RipleyHe founded several new towns on the coast, naming one Truxillo in memory of his birthplace.
The Spanish Pioneers | Charles F. Lummis
British Dictionary definitions for new town (1 of 2)
(in Britain) a town that has been planned as a complete unit and built with government sponsorship, esp to accommodate overspill population
British Dictionary definitions for Newtown (2 of 2)
/ (ˈnjuːtaʊn) /
a new town in central Wales, in Powys. Pop: 10 358 (2001)
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