bedroom community

English

Noun

bedroom community (plural bedroom communities)

1. (urban studies) An 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