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urban

[ ur-buhn ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or designating a city or town:

    densely populated urban areas.

  2. living, located, or taking place in a city:

    urban rooftop gardening.

  3. characteristic of or accustomed to cities; citified:

    He’s an urban type—I can’t picture him enjoying a whole week at our cabin in the woods.

  4. of or relating to the experience, lifestyle, or culture of African Americans living in economically depressed inner-city neighborhoods:

    Their first album had a hard, urban vibe.

  5. Offensive. (used as a euphemism for Black or African American, rather than in reference to cities or their residents):

    a drug problem that particularly impacts the urban residents in this small town.



urban

/ ˈɜː²úə²Ô /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or constituting a city or town
  2. living in a city or town
  3. (of music) emerging and developing in densely populated areas of large cities, esp those populated by people of African or Caribbean origin Compare rural
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ²¹²ÔtŸ±Â·³Ü°ùb²¹²Ô adjective
  • ²ÔŽÇ²Ô·³Ü°ùb²¹²Ô adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of urban1

First recorded in 1610–20; from Latin ³Ü°ù²úÄå²Ô³Ü²õ, equivalent to urb- (stem of urbs ) “city” + -Äå²Ô³Ü²õ adjective suffix; -an
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of urban1

C17: from Latin ³Ü°ù²úÄå²Ô³Ü²õ, from urbs city
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The aim of the federal grants was to recruit and train teachers to work in “hard to staff” schools in rural or urban areas.

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Wildfires are increasingly touching more diverse communities as fires grow in intensity and extend into urban areas, according to researchers.

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"But the one thing we agree on is that our core enemy is the urban monoculture; the leftist unifying culture."

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The battered heart of Khartoum lies eerily quiet now, after weeks of intense urban combat in the Sudanese capital.

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“We’ve created islands of habitat fragmentation with our roadways and housing encroaching deeper and deeper into the wild urban interface, and now we’re fixing this problem by using human ingenuity for good purposes.”

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