different between urbanite vs conurbation

English

Etymology 1

urban +? -ite (“resident of a particular area”)

Noun

urbanite (plural urbanites)

1. Someone who lives in a city or similar urban area.
2. One of a demographic class of young, socially-conscious, urban professionals.

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Etymology 2

Noun

urbanite (plural urbanites)

1. Rock-like recycled building material from man-made sources.
   • 2002, Joseph F. Kennedy, The Art of Natural Building, ?ISBN, p. 107:

     In Eugene, Oregon, Rob Bolman received a building permit for a straw bale house with a foundation made of stacked urbanite with a cement-sand mortar and a poured concrete bond beam on top.

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Anagrams

• braunite, burinate

English

Etymology

From Latin con- (“together”) + urbs (“city”) + -ation. Coined by Scottish biologist, sociologist, and geographer Patrick Geddes in 1915.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?n??be???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?n??be???n/

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

conurbation (plural conurbations)

1. A continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl.

Usage notes

A Dictionary of Geography distinguishes between uninuclear conurbations (conurbations which have developed around one urban area) and polynuclear conurbations (conurbations which have developed from the aggregation of several urban areas).

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References

• 2005, Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised), Oxford University Press, ?ISBN
• 2005, John Scott and Gordon Marshall, A Dictionary of Sociology, Oxford University Press, ?ISBN
• 2004, Susan Mayhew, A Dictionary of Geography, Oxford University Press, ?ISBN