MEANING
Spread among separated locations rather than gathered in one center.
Use it for
Distributed habitation; difficult service provision; absence of a central gathering pointLet separation between households alter social and practical routines.
Words that belong together
- dispersed settlement
- dispersed population
- dispersed communities
On the page
The dispersed population made a single village school impractical.
A mobile clinic visited the dispersed communities on a rotating schedule.
Despite their dispersed homes, residents met weekly at the cooperative.
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- Base
- dispersed
Usage notes
Primary category: setting. Selected spatial-distribution adjective. Describes arrangement, not necessarily sparse population or poor communication; related disperse is a verb, not another record here. Comparative: more dispersed; superlative: most dispersed. Participial source verb [base, third-person present, past, past participle, -ing]: disperse, disperses, dispersed, dispersed, dispersing. Record these as same-lexeme form aliases, not additional vocabulary entries.
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