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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.

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Origin of new town

First recorded in 1915–20

Other definitions for new town (2 of 2)

Newtown

[ noo-toun, nyoo- ]

/ ˈnuˌtaʊn, ˈnyu- /

noun

a town in SW Connecticut.

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How to use new town in a sentence

And in response to the Newtown Elementary School massacre in 2012, he again called for banning assault weapons.
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Gun massacres like Newtown and Columbine can destroy communities, families, and schools.
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My mother was one of the 86 on December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut.
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Newtown pediatrician Laura Nowacki lost eight of her patients in the massacre at Sandy Hook.
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Critics argue that better mental health screening could prevent the next Aurora or Newtown.
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Anyhow, Oswestry must be made “the initial town and not Newtown.”
The Story of the Cambrian|C. P. Gasquoine
A company from Newtown began a plantation, between those two settlements, at Suchiang (Hartford).
Great Events in the History of North and South America|Charles A. Goodrich
In this country, two or three others, as Baldwin and Newtown Pippin, are more highly esteemed.
Soil Culture|J. H. Walden
In 1632 a tax was voted for fortifying Newtown, the modern Cambridge.
The Colonization of North America|Herbert Eugene Bolton
The Yellow Newtown is quite a large apple, and it is superior in quality to the Winesap.
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British Dictionary definitions for new town (1 of 2)

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

British Dictionary definitions for new town (2 of 2)

Newtown

/ (ˈnjuːtaʊn) /

noun

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

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