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supercity noun[ C ] uk /ˈsuː.pəˌsɪt.i/ us /ˈsuː.pɚˌsɪt̬.i/ a city that is extremely large, sometimes consisting of several smaller cities : Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Macau, Zhuhai and Guangzhou could one day combine to become a supercity of 100 million people. With the city heading towards "supercity" status, we need to put in place the infrastructure to accommodate cyclists. Saadiyat Island is a proposed cultural supercity in Abu Dhabi. I have reservations about the speed with which the supercity is going ahead and the lack of planning involved. When we talk about "supercities", people in this province tend to think about Toronto, where, in fact, the population is only three million. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Towns & regions: towns, cities & villages (general) aerotropolis anti-city anti-urban backwater boom town burgher Cantabrigian central city civic conurbation garden city metropolitan elite multi-city municipal native place non-municipal open city small-town smoke urbanite
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