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urban Definition

ur·ban (ʉrbən)

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

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.

urban Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • regeneration: Marketing the city: the role of flagship developments in urban regeneration.
  • sprawl: Green Belt is countryside next to urban areas where there is a risk that the openness will be invaded by urban sprawl.
  • renaissance: This gave a huge boost to the urban renaissance.
  • area: In each project SEEDA is working to correct market failures in order to make urban areas work better.
  • myth: Urban Myths tend to be foul, foul stories.
  • legend: The whole point about an urban legend is hat everyone knows them: they are common currency.

Modifying Another Word

  • predominantly: As Worthing is a predominantly urban boro, open space within the Built Up Area is of particular importance.
  • largely: Magnificent Cathedrals and great churches are largely urban developments.
  • mostly: As a result, only very few, mostly urban, secondary traffic links have been fitted with fixed roadside monitoring equipment.
  • primarily: Solidarity Groups This program serves primarily urban businesses that are somewhat more stable than those in Trust Banks.
  • very: Many of the environments are very urban in style, taking place on abandoned streets in England or even training yards.
  • just: We're investing massive resource in rolling out 8Mbps across the country not just urban areas by spring 2006.

Preposition: in

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

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