satellite town

English

Noun

satellite town (plural satellite towns)

1. A self-contained town, as opposed to a mere suburb, on the periphery of a metropolitan area.

   Slough and Staines are just two of London's satellite towns.

Related terms

• satellite city

Translations

self-contained town near a metropolis

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衛星都市／卫星都市 (zh) (wèixīng dūshì)

• Danish: satellitby (da) c, drabantby c, planetby c
• Finnish: satelliittikaupunki
• French: ville satellite f
• German: Satellitenstadt f
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: drabantby m

  Nynorsk: drabantby m

• Portuguese: cidade satélite f
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• Swedish: drabantstad (sv) c, satellitstad (sv) c