Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A city dweller.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A member of the pyroxene group intermediate between diopside and acmite. It occurs in brown pyramidal crystals at Långban, Sweden.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Rock-like recycled building material from man-made sources.
  • noun Someone who lives in a city or similar urban area.
  • noun One of a demographic class of young, socially-conscious, urban professionals.

Etymologies

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urban +‎ -ite (“resident of a particular area”)

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