bedroom community

English

Noun

bedroom community (plural bedroom communities)

1. (urban studies) A suburban, exurban, or urban community that is primarily or exclusively residential, as due to zoning, from which most of the workforce commutes out to earn their livelihood; often a suburb of a nearby metropolis that workers travel to daily.

Synonyms

• bedtown, commuter town, bedroom suburb, bedroom town, dormitory town

Translations

residential urban community of a nearby metropolis

• Czech: satelitní obec f, satelitní město n
• Dutch: slaapstad (nl) f
• Finnish: nukkumalähiö (fi)
• French: cité-dortoir (fr) f, ville-dortoir (fr) f, village-dortoir m
• German: Trabantenstadt f, Trabantensiedlung, Schlafstadt f
• Japanese: ベッドタウン (ja) (beddo taun)
• Korean: 베드타운 (bedeutaun)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sovekommune (no) m, bokommune m, drabantkommune m

• Portuguese: cidade-dormitório f
• Russian: спа́льный райо́н (ru) m (spálʹnyj rajón)
• Spanish: ciudad dormitorio f