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new town
noun
- (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.
new town
noun
- (in Britain) a town that has been planned as a complete unit and built with government sponsorship, esp to accommodate overspill population
Word History and Origins
Origin of new town1
Example Sentences
Those who claimed the tragedy was a hoax showed up in Newtown, Connecticut, and harassed people connected to the shooting.
I mean, the single hardest story I’ve ever covered was Newtown.
Maybe you took time off after giving birth, or your mother fell ill and you quit to take care of her, or you followed a spouse to a new town for a job and you’re still searching for work.
“This is home now,” Maria Grazia Visconti told The Daily Beast as she walked her dog along one of the “new town” streets.
He surveyed the available newspapers whenever he arrived in a new town.
Following the castle terrace, we will descend towards the new town, and come out at the west of Princes Street.
The new town extends below the old one and is closer to the right bank of the Rhone.
Two years later the new town of Johnston was formed out of Providence and named after the attorney-general.
Nezahualcoyotl is also said to have founded a new town in this region, and sent colonists from Tezcuco to dwell in it.
It is known, however, that he lived in baronial style in his new town.
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