planned community
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- noun
- /plændɪd kəˈmjunɪti/
:
comunidad planificada
- We started off as a perfectly planned community full of cheer.
- master-planned community
- upscale planned community
- first planned community
Examples
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The planned community was light-years removed from the towns I'd passed through on my drive there.
Fiction book (1999) -
Snoqualmie Ridge is a 1,300-acre planned community currently under development by Weyerhaeuser Corporation's Land Management Division.
Academic text (1995) -
Short Hills was a planned community, and neighborhoods have names based on when and how they were developed.
Blog text (2) -
Today, many homes are built in planned communities called subdivisions.
Academic text (2010) -
Moreover, those who lost their lands would be resettled in modern planned communities with schools, electricity, and health clinics.
Academic text (2005) -
To the east, construction of the largest planned community in the state is underway, with its main entrance to the upscale homes just downwind.
Academic text (1997) -
Reunion is a Shea Homes master-planned community that is the perfect complement to your active lifestyle.
Blog text (24) -
Developed by Delta Land Corp. in the late 1950s, Windsor Forest was described as "Savannah's first planned community" and "Georgia's largest residential area."
Academic text (2009) -
Residential development is generally dispersed, most often single-family homes surrounded by acres of open space, but with several upscale planned communities between Pittsboro and Chapel Hill.
Academic text (2009) -
Peachtree City is a carefully planned community designed to provide residents with parks and recreational areas.
Synonyms
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3.1
An area with many similar homes built together and run as one community
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A town planned and built in a new area with houses, shops, and schools
How Planned
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'planned' (organized beforehand) modifies 'community' (a group or residential area), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer a community designed according to a plan. This adjective+noun structure is common cross-linguistically and follows ordinary English semantics, making the phrase immediately understandable from its parts.
Etymology
The noun planned community comes from the simple image of a planned area and a community drawn on a map before it is built. Because builders decide where houses, parks and shops will go in advance, the phrase now means 'a neighborhood made from a careful plan', often with services for a particular group of people.