Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
aldea | (Spanish) a small village or a farm in Portugal, Spain, or one of their former territories. |
barrio | (Spanish) a Spanish-speaking, usually poor community or district. |
beguinage | (Fr.) an establishment for beguins. |
bicoastal | living or based simultaneously on two coasts, esp in N. America. |
bidonville | (Fr.) a shanty town with dwellings made from oil-drums. |
bohemia | a community of bohemians. |
boomburb | a large suburb experiencing rapid population growth. |
boomtown | a town which has expanded rapidly and prospered. |
boondock | (Tagalog) a remote and wild place. |
borghetto | (Ital.) a big village. |
borgo | (Ital.) a market town. |
bourg | (Fr.) a town beside a castle, a market-town. |
bro | a place for which one feels a strong affinity. |
brugh | a borough. |
burb | (Short for) a suburb. |
burgh | a borough or incorporated town, esp in Scotland. |
burghal | belonging to a burgh, a borough or incorporated town, esp one in Scotland. |
burrowstown | (Scots) a town that is a burgh. |
cabbagetown | a city slum. |
campong | (Malay) a Malay village. |
cantonment | a small military town. |
citied | belonging to, or resembling, a city. |
citification | the act of citifying. |
citify | to adapt to the city. |
city | a large town. |
cityfication | the act of cityfying. |
cityfy | to adapt to the city. |
clach | (Gaelic) a small village; (verb) to kill by stoning. |
clachan | (Gaelic) a small village. |
cohousing | a type of housing with some shared facilities. |
colocate | to place two or more housing units in close proximity. |
conurban | relating to a conurbation. |
conurbation | an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities. |
conurbia | conurbations considered as a class. |
cosmopolis | a large city. |
cottager | one who lives in a cottage. |
cottown | (Scots) a group of outhouses. |
cowtown | a rural town or city in a cattle-raising area. |
dorp | (Afrikaans) a S. African village or small town. |
douar | (Arabic) a circular Arab encampment. |
dowar | (Arabic) a circular Arab encampment. |
duar | (Arabic) a circular Arab encampment. |
ekistic | relating to ekistics, the study of human settlements. |
ekistical | relating to ekistics, the study of human settlements. |
ekistician | a student of ekistics, the study of human settlements. |
ekistics | the study of human settlements. |
empeople | (Obs.) to form into a people or community. |
endship | (Obs.) a village. |
exurb | a residential area, esp a prosperous one, outside the suburbs of a town. |
exurban | relating to an exurb, a residential area, esp a prosperous one, outside the suburbs of a town. |
exurbia | exurbs collectively. |
faubourg | (Fr.) a suburb just beyond the walls or a district recently included within a city. |
favela | (Port.) in Brazil, a shantytown. |
favella | (Port.) in Brazil, a shantytown. |
ghetto | the Jews' quarter in a city; any poor quarter inhabited by a racial or other group. |
ghettoise | to confine to a ghetto. |
ghettoize | to confine to a ghetto. |
greenbelt | a strip of open land surrounding a town. |
hamlet | a small town. |
hithe | a port or small haven. |
homestall | a homestead. |
hometown | the town of one's birth or residence. |
hythe | a port or small haven. |
ideopolis | a city that is sustained primarily by intellectual enterprises such as education, the media, advertising and design, with a highly educated workforce. |
intown | in a town. |
kahal | (Hebrew) a Jewish community in Europe. |
kaik | (Maori) the South Island dialect word for kainga, a Maori village. |
kaika | (Maori) the South Island dialect word for kainga, a Maori village. |
kainga | (Maori) a village or small settlement. |
kampong | (Malay) a Malay village. |
maidan | (Urdu) in India, an open plain; an open space near a town. |
manyata | (Masai) a small Masai settlement or encampment. |
manyatta | (Masai) a small Masai settlement or encampment. |
medina | (Arabic) in N. African cities, the ancient native quarter. |
megacity | a big city. |
megalopolis | a wide-spreading, thickly-populated urban area. |
menopolis | (Coll.) an area with a high proportion of single men. |
metroplex | a large urban or metropolitan area. |
metropolis | the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region. |
metropolitical | of or like a metropolis. |
micropolis | a small city. |
mofussil | (Urdu) in India, the rural localities of a district as distinguished from the chief station or the town. |
moshav | (Hebrew) a settlement like a kibbutz, but with more private property. |
multicity | involving several cities. |
mura | (Japanese) a Japanese village. |
nahal | (Hebrew) in Israel, an agricultural settlement established and manned by soldiers. |
nomadise | to lead the life of a nomad. |
nomadism | the state of being a nomad. |
nomadize | to lead the life of a nomad. |
nomady | the state of being a nomad. |
nonghetto | not related to a ghetto. |
oecist | (Hist.) the founder of a colony. |
oikist | (Hist.) the founder of a colony. |
outcity | anywhere outside a city's confines. |
outharbor | (Canadian) in Newfoundland, any city or town having a harbor other than the main city of St. John's. |
outport | a port out of or remote from the chief port. |
overspill | the proportion of a population that leaves a district due to housing pressures; (verb) to spill over. |
parischan | (Scots) a parish. |
parischane | (Scots) a parish. |
parishen | (Scots) a parish. |
parochin | (Scots) a parish. |
parochine | (Scots) a parish. |
plaza | (Spanish) a square, eg in a town. |
plottage | the size or value of a specified piece of land, regarded in terms of the area accumulated from its constituent plots. |
pomoerium | (Lat.) an open space around a town within the walls. |
purlieu | (Fr.) a neighbourhood; a suburb. |
quartier | (Fr.) a specified district in a French town or city. |
rancheria | (Spanish) in Spanish America and the western US, a collection of Indian huts; a place or house where a number of rancheros live. |
rancherie | a Canadian Indian village or settlement, esp on a reserve. |
resiant | (Arch.) resident, dwelling; (noun) a resident. |
rurban | partially rural, partially urban. |
seaport | a port. |
seminomad | one leading a partially nomadic existence. |
seminomadic | leading the life of a seminomad. |
settlement | the act of settling. |
shacktown | (Canadian) a community or section of a community composed of shacks or other temporary housing. |
shantytown | a usually poor town or section of a town consisting mostly of shanties. |
shtetel | (Yiddish) formerly, a Jewish community in an Eastern European town or village. |
shtetl | (Yiddish) formerly, a Jewish community in an Eastern European town or village. |
sidesplit | a split-level house having floors raised half a level on one side thus having an upper and lower basement and an upper and lower main floor. |
slum | a squalid urban area (verb) to visit slums |
slumism | the prevalence of slums. |
slurb | an area combining the characteristics of a slum and a suburb. |
slurban | like a slurb, i.e. combining the characteristics of a slum and a suburb. |
subblock | a subdivision of a block. |
subtopia | the suburbs of a city. |
subtopian | of or like subtopia, the suburbs of a city. |
suburb | a district or community adjoining a town or city. |
suburban | pertaining to a suburb; (noun) a resident in the suburbs. |
suburbanise | to make suburban. |
suburbanism | the state of being suburban. |
suburbanity | the state of being suburban. |
suburbed | having suburbs. |
suburbia | the suburban world. |
supercity | a very big city. |
tentage | a collection of tents; an encampment. |
tetrapolis | a group of four cities. |
tetrapolitan | relating to a tetrapolis, a group of four towns. |
thorp | (Arch.) a group of houses in the country; a small village. |
thorpe | (Arch.) a group of houses in the country; a small village. |
toun | (Scots) a town. |
town | a center of population smaller than a city. |
townland | esp. in Ireland, a division of land of varying extent; a territorial division, a township. |
townless | without a town. |
townlet | a small town. |
townling | a small town. |
townly | townish. |
township | (S. Afr.) an urban settlement inhabited by poor black people. |
townsite | the site of a town. |
towny | belonging to the town. |
tricity | an area that comprises three adjoining cities. |
urb | an urban area. |
urban | pertaining to a city. |
urbanism | the lifestyle of city-dwellers. |
urbia | (Lat.) cities collectively. |
vicinage | neighbourhood; residents in a neighbourhood. |
vill | a township, or feudal territorial unit. |
villadom | the world of suburban residences. |
village | a small community in a rural area. |
villagery | villages; a district of villages. |
villagey | like a village > VILLAGIER, VILLAGIEST. |
villagree | (Shakesp.) villagery, villages collectively. |
villar | pertaining to a manor or village. |
villatic | (Milton) of or relating to a farmyard or village. |
voisinage | (Obs.) a neighbourhood. |
wastelot | an unused lot of land in a built-up area. |
woon | (Spenser) to dwell. |