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ur⋅ban

  [ur-buhn]
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–adjective
1. of, pertaining to, or designating a city or town.
2. living in a city.
3. characteristic of or accustomed to cities; citified: He is an urban type.
Origin:
1610–20; < L urbānus, equiv. to urb- (s. of urbs) city + -ānus -an
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Urban I

  [ur-buhn]
–noun
Saint, pope a.d. 222–230.

Urban II

 
–noun
(Odo or Otho) c1042–99, French ecclesiastic: pope 1088–99.

Urban III

 
–noun
(Uberto Crivelli) Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1185–87.

Urban IV

 
–noun
(Jacques Pantaléon) died 1264, French ecclesiastic: pope 1261–64.

Urban V

 
–noun
(Guillaume de Grimoard) c1310–70, French ecclesiastic: pope 1362–70.

Urban VI

 
–noun
(Bartolomeo Prignano) c1318–89, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1378–89.

Urban VII

 
–noun
(Giovanni Battista Castagna) 1521–90, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1590.

Urban VIII

 
–noun
(Maffeo Barberini) 1568–1644, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1623–44.
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ur·ban   (ûr'bən)   
adj.  

  1. Of, relating to, or located in a city.

  2. Characteristic of the city or city life.


[Latin urbānus, from urbs, urb-, city.]
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Main Entry:  urban
Part of Speech:  adj
Definition:  See urban contemporary
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Word Origin & History

urban 
"characteristic of city life," 1619 (but rare before 1830s), from L. urbanus "of or pertaining to a city or city life," as a noun, "city dweller," from urbs (gen. urbis) "city," of unknown origin. The word gradually emerged in this sense as urbane became restricted to manners and styles of expression. Urban renewal, euphemistic for "slum clearance," is recorded from 1955.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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