periurban.

Located around the edge of an urban area where city and countryside meet.

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• periurban settlement

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A periurban settlement stretched along the road.

The periurban belt held farms and warehouses.

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Primary category: setting. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a spatial or institutional classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.