“Conurbation” (kon-ur-BAY-shun) – from the Latin for “city” – is an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities.
Example (as used by Russell Baker in The New York Times): “To live there in that great smoking conurbation rumbling with the constant thunder of locomotives, filled with the moaning of train whistles coming down the Potomac Valley, was beyond my most fevered hopes.”
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