drabantby

Norwegian

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Definitions
  • a satellite town self-contained town on the periphery of a metropolitan area

Etymology

Compound from Norwegian Bokmål drabant + Norwegian Bokmål by (city, town)derived from English satellite town derived from Danish satellitby.

Origin

Danish

satellitby

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