Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| aldea | (Spanish) a small village or a farm in Portugal, Spain, or one of their former territories. |
| barrio | (Spanish) a Spanish-speaking, usually poor community or district. |
| beguinage | (Fr.) an establishment for beguins. |
| bicoastal | living or based simultaneously on two coasts, esp in N. America. |
| bidonville | (Fr.) a shanty town with dwellings made from oil-drums. |
| bohemia | a community of bohemians. |
| boomburb | a large suburb experiencing rapid population growth. |
| boomtown | a town which has expanded rapidly and prospered. |
| boondock | (Tagalog) a remote and wild place. |
| borghetto | (Ital.) a big village. |
| borgo | (Ital.) a market town. |
| bourg | (Fr.) a town beside a castle, a market-town. |
| bro | a place for which one feels a strong affinity. |
| brugh | a borough. |
| burb | (Short for) a suburb. |
| burgh | a borough or incorporated town, esp in Scotland. |
| burghal | belonging to a burgh, a borough or incorporated town, esp one in Scotland. |
| burrowstown | (Scots) a town that is a burgh. |
| cabbagetown | a city slum. |
| campong | (Malay) a Malay village. |
| cantonment | a small military town. |
| citied | belonging to, or resembling, a city. |
| citification | the act of citifying. |
| citify | to adapt to the city. |
| city | a large town. |
| cityfication | the act of cityfying. |
| cityfy | to adapt to the city. |
| clach | (Gaelic) a small village; (verb) to kill by stoning. |
| clachan | (Gaelic) a small village. |
| cohousing | a type of housing with some shared facilities. |
| colocate | to place two or more housing units in close proximity. |
| conurban | relating to a conurbation. |
| conurbation | an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities. |
| conurbia | conurbations considered as a class. |
| cosmopolis | a large city. |
| cottager | one who lives in a cottage. |
| cottown | (Scots) a group of outhouses. |
| cowtown | a rural town or city in a cattle-raising area. |
| dorp | (Afrikaans) a S. African village or small town. |
| douar | (Arabic) a circular Arab encampment. |
| dowar | (Arabic) a circular Arab encampment. |
| duar | (Arabic) a circular Arab encampment. |
| ekistic | relating to ekistics, the study of human settlements. |
| ekistical | relating to ekistics, the study of human settlements. |
| ekistician | a student of ekistics, the study of human settlements. |
| ekistics | the study of human settlements. |
| empeople | (Obs.) to form into a people or community. |
| endship | (Obs.) a village. |
| exurb | a residential area, esp a prosperous one, outside the suburbs of a town. |
| exurban | relating to an exurb, a residential area, esp a prosperous one, outside the suburbs of a town. |
| exurbia | exurbs collectively. |
| faubourg | (Fr.) a suburb just beyond the walls or a district recently included within a city. |
| favela | (Port.) in Brazil, a shantytown. |
| favella | (Port.) in Brazil, a shantytown. |
| ghetto | the Jews' quarter in a city; any poor quarter inhabited by a racial or other group. |
| ghettoise | to confine to a ghetto. |
| ghettoize | to confine to a ghetto. |
| greenbelt | a strip of open land surrounding a town. |
| hamlet | a small town. |
| hithe | a port or small haven. |
| homestall | a homestead. |
| hometown | the town of one's birth or residence. |
| hythe | a port or small haven. |
| ideopolis | a city that is sustained primarily by intellectual enterprises such as education, the media, advertising and design, with a highly educated workforce. |
| intown | in a town. |
| kahal | (Hebrew) a Jewish community in Europe. |
| kaik | (Maori) the South Island dialect word for kainga, a Maori village. |
| kaika | (Maori) the South Island dialect word for kainga, a Maori village. |
| kainga | (Maori) a village or small settlement. |
| kampong | (Malay) a Malay village. |
| maidan | (Urdu) in India, an open plain; an open space near a town. |
| manyata | (Masai) a small Masai settlement or encampment. |
| manyatta | (Masai) a small Masai settlement or encampment. |
| medina | (Arabic) in N. African cities, the ancient native quarter. |
| megacity | a big city. |
| megalopolis | a wide-spreading, thickly-populated urban area. |
| menopolis | (Coll.) an area with a high proportion of single men. |
| metroplex | a large urban or metropolitan area. |
| metropolis | the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region. |
| metropolitical | of or like a metropolis. |
| micropolis | a small city. |
| mofussil | (Urdu) in India, the rural localities of a district as distinguished from the chief station or the town. |
| moshav | (Hebrew) a settlement like a kibbutz, but with more private property. |
| multicity | involving several cities. |
| mura | (Japanese) a Japanese village. |
| nahal | (Hebrew) in Israel, an agricultural settlement established and manned by soldiers. |
| nomadise | to lead the life of a nomad. |
| nomadism | the state of being a nomad. |
| nomadize | to lead the life of a nomad. |
| nomady | the state of being a nomad. |
| nonghetto | not related to a ghetto. |
| oecist | (Hist.) the founder of a colony. |
| oikist | (Hist.) the founder of a colony. |
| outcity | anywhere outside a city's confines. |
| outharbor | (Canadian) in Newfoundland, any city or town having a harbor other than the main city of St. John's. |
| outport | a port out of or remote from the chief port. |
| overspill | the proportion of a population that leaves a district due to housing pressures; (verb) to spill over. |
| parischan | (Scots) a parish. |
| parischane | (Scots) a parish. |
| parishen | (Scots) a parish. |
| parochin | (Scots) a parish. |
| parochine | (Scots) a parish. |
| plaza | (Spanish) a square, eg in a town. |
| plottage | the size or value of a specified piece of land, regarded in terms of the area accumulated from its constituent plots. |
| pomoerium | (Lat.) an open space around a town within the walls. |
| purlieu | (Fr.) a neighbourhood; a suburb. |
| quartier | (Fr.) a specified district in a French town or city. |
| rancheria | (Spanish) in Spanish America and the western US, a collection of Indian huts; a place or house where a number of rancheros live. |
| rancherie | a Canadian Indian village or settlement, esp on a reserve. |
| resiant | (Arch.) resident, dwelling; (noun) a resident. |
| rurban | partially rural, partially urban. |
| seaport | a port. |
| seminomad | one leading a partially nomadic existence. |
| seminomadic | leading the life of a seminomad. |
| settlement | the act of settling. |
| shacktown | (Canadian) a community or section of a community composed of shacks or other temporary housing. |
| shantytown | a usually poor town or section of a town consisting mostly of shanties. |
| shtetel | (Yiddish) formerly, a Jewish community in an Eastern European town or village. |
| shtetl | (Yiddish) formerly, a Jewish community in an Eastern European town or village. |
| sidesplit | a split-level house having floors raised half a level on one side thus having an upper and lower basement and an upper and lower main floor. |
| slum | a squalid urban area (verb) to visit slums |
| slumism | the prevalence of slums. |
| slurb | an area combining the characteristics of a slum and a suburb. |
| slurban | like a slurb, i.e. combining the characteristics of a slum and a suburb. |
| subblock | a subdivision of a block. |
| subtopia | the suburbs of a city. |
| subtopian | of or like subtopia, the suburbs of a city. |
| suburb | a district or community adjoining a town or city. |
| suburban | pertaining to a suburb; (noun) a resident in the suburbs. |
| suburbanise | to make suburban. |
| suburbanism | the state of being suburban. |
| suburbanity | the state of being suburban. |
| suburbed | having suburbs. |
| suburbia | the suburban world. |
| supercity | a very big city. |
| tentage | a collection of tents; an encampment. |
| tetrapolis | a group of four cities. |
| tetrapolitan | relating to a tetrapolis, a group of four towns. |
| thorp | (Arch.) a group of houses in the country; a small village. |
| thorpe | (Arch.) a group of houses in the country; a small village. |
| toun | (Scots) a town. |
| town | a center of population smaller than a city. |
| townland | esp. in Ireland, a division of land of varying extent; a territorial division, a township. |
| townless | without a town. |
| townlet | a small town. |
| townling | a small town. |
| townly | townish. |
| township | (S. Afr.) an urban settlement inhabited by poor black people. |
| townsite | the site of a town. |
| towny | belonging to the town. |
| tricity | an area that comprises three adjoining cities. |
| urb | an urban area. |
| urban | pertaining to a city. |
| urbanism | the lifestyle of city-dwellers. |
| urbia | (Lat.) cities collectively. |
| vicinage | neighbourhood; residents in a neighbourhood. |
| vill | a township, or feudal territorial unit. |
| villadom | the world of suburban residences. |
| village | a small community in a rural area. |
| villagery | villages; a district of villages. |
| villagey | like a village > VILLAGIER, VILLAGIEST. |
| villagree | (Shakesp.) villagery, villages collectively. |
| villar | pertaining to a manor or village. |
| villatic | (Milton) of or relating to a farmyard or village. |
| voisinage | (Obs.) a neighbourhood. |
| wastelot | an unused lot of land in a built-up area. |
| woon | (Spenser) to dwell. |