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urban

[ur-buhn]

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adjective

of, pertaining to, or designating a city or town.

living in a city.

characteristic of or accustomed to cities; citified: He is an urban type.

Origin:
1610–20; < Latin urbānus, equivalent to urb- (stem of urbs) city + -ānus -an

Related forms

an·ti·ur·ban, adjective

non·ur·ban, adjective

sem·i·ur·ban, adjective

un·ur·ban, adjective

Can be confused: 1. rural, suburban, urban (see synonym note at rural); 2. urban, urbane.

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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Saint, pope a.d. 222–230.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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(Maffeo Barberini), 1568–1644, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1623–44.

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urban (ˈɜːb^ən)

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

[C17: from Latin urbānus, from urbs 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

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and styles of expression. Urban renewal, euphemistic for "slum clearance," is recorded from 1955.

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