bedroom community

English

Noun

bedroom community (plural bedroom communities)

An urban community that is primarily residential, from which most of the workforce commutes out to earn their livelihood; often a suburb of a nearby metropolis that workers travel to daily.

Synonyms

commuter town, bedroom suburb, dormitory town

Translations

residential urban community of a nearby metropolis

Dutch: slaapstad (nl) f
French: cité-dortoir (fr) f, ville-dortoir (fr) f, village-dortoir m
German: Trabantenstadt f, Trabantensiedlung, Schlafstadt f
Japanese: ベッドタウン (beddo taun)

Korean: 베드타운 (bedeutaun)
Portuguese: cidade dormitório f
Russian: спа́льный райо́н (ru) m (spálʹnyj rajón)
Spanish: ciudad dormitorio f

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