sunbelt
pronunciation
How to pronounce sunbelt in British English:
UK ['sʌnbelt]
How to pronounce sunbelt in American English:
US [ˈsʌnˌbɛlt]
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- Noun:
- states in the south and southwest that have a warm climate and tend to be politically conservative
Word Origin
- Sunbelt (n.)
- 1969, with reference to the Southern U.S., from sun (n.) + belt (n.).
Example
- 1. The sunbelt would love to have such fights .
- 2. The financial crisis made things worse , particularly in the once-booming sunbelt .
- 3. The sunbelt , in contrast , was home to eight of the ten states with the highest concentration of youth .
- 4. Like other sunbelt areas-las vegas , phoenix , and the florida coast-the atlanta suburbs got swept up in the building boom of the early and mid-2000s .
- 5. Then there is the ongoing migration within america from the cooler climes of the north-east and mid-west to the sunbelt of the south .