built-up
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4.0
- adjective
- /bɪlt ʌp/
:
construido
- The park is located in a built-up area, surrounded by tall buildings and shops.
- built-up area
It wasn't very big, but it was decently built up.
- It wasn't very big, but it was decently built up.
- It's not, it's, it's pretty built up like they have, they have some nice structures, but there are berms like bulldozers pushed in, sandbags built up.
- And the thing that I realized was that it was much more built up than I had even thought.
Examples
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The treated water could then be safely used to irrigate farms in the vicinity of the built-up area.
Academic text (2003) -
Thus, most built-up areas have expanded towards the northeast and southwest regions along the highway.
Academic text (2017) -
- No, atomic weapons are out of the question in any built up area.
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Areas that had been built up since the 1940s had lost their tide pool communities in the process.
Academic text (2007) -
And so the city was built up in classical and Hellenistic Greek times.
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Clearly, Lhasa and other towns had been built up significantly over this period.
Academic text (1997) -
Each car was travelling at just 34.7 miles per hour, only a little bit over the speed limit for a built-up area.
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We remain woefully ignorant about where and how much our built-up area is encroaching on rural land.
Academic text (2001) -
There are more traffic lights in the built-up section of the city to manage the flow of vehicles.
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Residents often complain about noise in the built-up districts where streets are crowded and busy.
Synonyms
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4.4
A place where many people live close together
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4.6
A place that has more buildings, roads, and people like a city
Land made useful by building houses, roads or other improvements
An area where many people live close together
Antonyms
How Built-Up
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Built-up comes from built, meaning 'made', and up, meaning 'more' or 'increased'. Imagine people kept 'building up' an area by adding houses, shops and roads until it was full of buildings, so built-up means a place with many buildings and lots of people.