- a comprehensively planned, self-sufficient urban community that provides housing, educational, recreational, and commercial facilities and often serves to absorb residents from a nearby overcrowded metropolis.
- a town in SW Connecticut.
- (in Britain) a town that has been planned as a complete unit and built with government sponsorship, esp to accommodate overspill population
- a new town in central Wales, in Powys. Pop: 10 358 (2001)
