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satellite towns

satellite towns is the plural of satellite town.

Meaning of satellite town

Noun

satellite town (plural satellite towns)

  1. A self-contained town, as opposed to a mere suburb, on the periphery of a metropolitan area.
    • Slough and Staines are just two of London's satellite towns.

Questions about satellite towns

What is satellite towns the plural of?
Satellite towns is the plural of satellite town.

Words near satellite towns in the dictionary

  1. satellite telephone
  2. satellite television
  3. satellite tenant
  4. satellite tenants
  5. satellite town
  6. satellite towns
  7. satellite TV
  8. satellite vein
  9. satellite veins
  10. satellite-framed
  11. satellite-framing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: satellite towns (page history and authors); satellite town (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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