Definitions

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

  • adjective Of, relating to, or located in a city.
  • adjective Characteristic of the city or city life.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • 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.]
  • noun One who belongs to or lives in a town or city.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or belonging to a city or town.
  • adjective Belonging to, or suiting, those living in a city; cultivated; polite; urbane.
  • adjective See Predial servitude, under Servitude.

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

  • adjective Related to the (or any) city.
  • adjective Characteristic of city life.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective located in or characteristic of a city or city life
  • adjective relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin urbānus, from urbs, urb-, city.]

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From Latin urbanus, itself from urbs ("city")

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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.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • 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.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • 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.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • 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.

    Boing Boing Mark Frauenfelder 2011

  • Will they have to cede to the demands of the Dervaes Family to stop using the term "urban homestead?"

    Boing Boing Mark Frauenfelder 2011

  • 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.

    Boing Boing Mark Frauenfelder 2011

  • 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.

    Putting the Park in Park Avenue Eric Felten 2011

  • 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 Guardian World News Patrick Butler 2011

  • 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.

    PunkAssBlog.com 2009

  • 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.

    Bloggers.Pakistan 2008

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