Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or located in a city.
- adj. Characteristic of the city or city life.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or belonging to a city or town; resembling a city; characteristic of a city; situated or living in towns or cities: as, an urban population; urban districts.
- Civil; courteous in manners; polite. [In this sense urbane is now used.]
- n. One who belongs to or lives in a town or city.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or belonging to a city or town.
- adj. Belonging to, or suiting, those living in a city; cultivated; polite; urbane.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. located in or characteristic of a city or city life
- adj. relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area
Etymologies
- From Latin urbanus, itself from urbs ("city") (Wiktionary)
- Latin urbānus, from urbs, urb-, city. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Finally, I should note that while I use the term urban tribe and its subcategories, in general young people in Mexico City reject identifying themselves in such terminologies—goth, rasta, etc.—even if they otherwise appear fully immersed in a specific subculture.”
“The Dervaes assert that they are protecting a legitimate business interest, and that their trademark of the term "urban homesteading" prevents corporations from doing the same thing.”
“Will they have to cede to the demands of the Dervaes Family to stop using the term "urban homestead?”
“Critics such as blogger Crunchy Chicken claim that this trademark is unenforceable, since the term "urban homestead" has been in use since at least the 1970s.”
“An eco-enthusiast in Pasadena, Calif., recently trademarked the phrase "urban homestead" and is now warning the authors and publishers cranking out urban-homesteading how-to books not to tread on the turf he has tried to fence in.”
“By 2015, academics had coined the phrase "urban neo-Victorian dystopia" to describe the dramatic social and spatial changes in the city they had begun to compare, with only a little exaggeration, with the London described by Charles Dickens 160 years earlier.”
“The label urban fantasy. 15 years ago, urban fantasy was what we called stuff like Charles DeLint and the Borderlands series and all those rock 'n' roll elf stories.”
“The term urban taliban is finding repeated expression on these pages and this term is not only distorting the issue but is also capable of creating confusions.”
“Scott Meyer, formerly the editor of Organic Gardening magazine calls his book "The City Homesteader: Self-Sufficiency on Any Square Footage," a title that avoids the word "urban" and thus any pesky trademark disputes.”
“You know, what we call urban culture 30 years ago, you know, was black.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘urban’.
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A combined list of
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3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
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MUSIC - ALL TERMS
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Words from the names of various dictionaries.
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THE WAY WE DRESS
These Vocabulary will learn adjectives that describe fashion choices and personal style in clothes.
chic, classic, conservative, elegant, fashionable, flashy, formal, frumpy, functional, funky, quirky, retro and 20 more...
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big book gre
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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nail01
sentimental, eloquent, inevitable, pretentious, verbose, aptly, stoically, grandiloquent, valedictory, assiduous, exorbitant, wreaked and 154 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Strange Pennsylvania Place Names
Kad, you've created a monster. ;-)
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my dictionary
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Tunie: Mark Rothko Song
A sad song by Dar Williams, from her album The Honesty Room.
The blue it speaks so full
It's like the beauty one can barely stand
Or too much things dropped in your ...pedestrians, kind, wash away, desperate, uptown, coffee, foot in the grave, folks, suicide, museum, powers, cost and 29 more...
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nelsara's Words
popular, culture, pop, erudite, intelligent, gender, urban, media, film, television, university, college and 55 more...
Tweets
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