interurban.

1. Connecting or occurring between cities or other urban areas.

2. An electric railway connecting urban places, especially in historical North American usage.

3. A vehicle operating on an interurban railway.

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Words that belong together

• an interurban route
• interurban transport

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The interurban route crossed the deserted factories before reaching the second town.

Interurban transport continued after the local service had stopped.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting. Forms: Relational or positional adjective; ordinary comparative and superlative usually not applicable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.