exurb
Definitions
Examples
“I had my first taste⟳ of a collapsing exurb last⟳ night.”
“Lots of cities are exurbs of other cities for reasons of finance or infrastructure.”
“Miles of exurbs bristle with hundreds—no, thousands—of apartment towers. These monoliths soar like⟳ gigantic dominoes into a dust-whitened sky. The area was hand-tilled cornfields when Lui grew up in Xi’an in the 1980s.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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