new town


noun
  1. (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

1
First recorded in 1915–20

Other definitions for Newtown (2 of 2)

Newtown
[ noo-toun, nyoo- ]

noun
  1. 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 Greene
  • Two militia companies were formed in Tiverton and one in each of the other new towns.

    A short history of Rhode Island | George Washington Greene
  • The previous history of the new towns belongs to Massachusetts and Plymouth.

    A short history of Rhode Island | George Washington Greene
  • In the South, new towns were springing up, anxious to divide distributive trade with the older cotton concentration points.

  • He 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)

new town

noun
  1. (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)

Newtown

/ (ˈnjuːtaʊn) /


noun
  1. a new town in central Wales, in Powys. Pop: 10 358 (2001)

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