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rurban fringes

rurban fringes is the plural of rurban fringe.

Meaning of rurban fringe

Noun

rurban fringe (plural rurban fringes)

  1. An overlapping area between city and countryside which has some characteristics of each.
    • There exists what has come to be called the "rurban fringe," an area occupied by tar paper shacks and stately estates, large commercial farms and one-acre part-time farms, golf courses and cemeteries, airports and obnoxious industries.1946, Walter Firey, “Ecological Considerations in Planning for Rurban Fringes”, in American Sociological Review, volume 11, number 4, page 413

Questions about rurban fringes

What is rurban fringes the plural of?
Rurban fringes is the plural of rurban fringe.

Words near rurban fringes in the dictionary

  1. ruralpolitan
  2. ruralpolitans
  3. rurals
  4. rurban
  5. rurban fringe
  6. rurban fringes
  7. rurbanism
  8. rurbanist
  9. rurbanists
  10. rurbanite
  11. rurbanites

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