the big smoke
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a large town or city
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a town or city that suddenly becomes successful because there is a lot of new business activity
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a large city area that develops when towns that are close to each other get bigger and join together
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in southern Asia, a town in the hills where people go in order to be more comfortable when the weather is very hot
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a town that is planned and designed and is built on land where there was not a town before
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an area within a county (=a division of a state) in the US or Canada that is responsible for running its own public services
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a town that has established a formal connection with another town in a different country to encourage visits and exchange information. The American word is sister city.
a big city where you can have an exciting life and be successful
the people who live in a town and the people who belong to the university in that town, used especially when talking about the differences between the two groups
a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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