Definition of greenbelt
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: a belt of parkways, parks, or farmlands that encircles a community
Greenbelt
geographical nameDefinition of Greenbelt (Entry 2 of 2)
garden city in central Maryland built to provide low-cost housing in the late 1930s population 23,068
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The first known use of greenbelt was in 1949
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