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- [ur-buh n]
- /ˈɜr bən/
- /ˈɜːbən/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [ur-buh n]
- /ˈɜr bən/
Definitions of urban word
- adjective urban of, relating to, or designating a city or town. 1
- adjective urban living in a city. 1
- adjective urban characteristic of or accustomed to cities; citified: He is an urban type. 1
- noun urban (Maffeo Barberini) 1568–1644, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1623–44. 1
- adjective urban Urban means belonging to, or relating to, a town or city. 0
- adjective urban of, relating to, or constituting a city or town 0
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Origin of urban
First appearance:
before 1610 One of the 40% oldest English words
1610-20; < Latin urbānus, equivalent to urb- (stem of urbs) city + -ānus -an
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Parts of speech for Urban
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
urban popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 94% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
urban usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for urban
adj urban
- burghal — (in Scotland) an incorporated town having its own charter and some degree of political independence from the surrounding area.
- city — The City is the part of London where many important financial institutions have their main offices. People often refer to these financial institutions as the City.
- civic — You use civic to describe people or things that have an official status in a town or city.
- conjunct — joined; united
- downtown — to or in the main business section of a city.
adjective urban
- intermutual — (obsolete) mutual.
- intraurban — Within an urban area.
Antonyms for urban
adj urban
- agrestic — rural; rustic
- agronomic — the science of soil management and the production of field crops.
- arcadian — of or relating to Arcadia or its inhabitants, esp the idealized Arcadia of pastoral poetry
- clodhopping — loutish; boorish.
- clownish — If you describe a person's appearance or behaviour as clownish, you mean that they look or behave rather like a clown, and often that they appear rather foolish.
adjective urban
- agrarian — Agrarian means relating to the ownership and use of land, especially farmland, or relating to the part of a society or economy that is concerned with agriculture.
- agricultural — Agricultural means involving or relating to agriculture.
- countrified — You use countrified to describe something that seems or looks like something in the country, rather than in a town.
- greenfield — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- outland — Usually, outlands. the outlying districts or remote regions of a country; provinces: a name unknown in the outlands.
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