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urban definition

ur·ban (ʉr′bən)

adjective

  1. of, in, constituting, or comprising a city or town
  2. characteristic of the city as distinguished from the country; citified
  3. ☆ in U.S. census use, designating or of an incorporated or unincorporated place with at least 50,000 inhabitants

Etymology: L urbanus < urbs, city

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urban Synonyms

urban

modif.

  1. Concerning city government

    city, metropolitan, civil; see municipal, public 2.

  2. Concerning city living

    city, civic, municipal, metropolitan, megalopolitan, within the city limits, inner-city, central-city, downtown, zoned, planned, business-district, civil, nonrural, ghetto, shopping, residential, apartment-dwelling, oppidan.


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urban Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • regeneration: Marketing the city: the role of flagship developments in urban regeneration.

Modifying Another Word

  • predominantly: As Worthing is a predominantly urban boro, open space within the Built Up Area is of particular importance.

Preposition: in

  • character: The development is clearly urban in character, but lacks local shops and facilities.
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urban quotes

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

-Lamb, Charles

The car has becomeanarticle ofdresswithout whichwe feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

-McLuhan, (Herbert) Marshall

New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic. San Francisco is a lady, Boston has become Urban Renewal, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington blink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis, and New Orleans is unremarkable past the French Quarter. Detroit is a one- trade town, Pittsburgh has lost its golden triangle. St Louis has become the golden arch of the corporation, and nights in Kansas City close early. The oil depletion allowance makes Houston and Dallas naught but checkerboards for this sort of game. But Chicago is a great American city. Perhaps it is the last of the great American cities.

-Mailer, Norman Kingsley

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