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city-bred

[ sit-ee-bred ]

adjective

  1. reared in a city.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of city-bred1

First recorded in 1880–85; city + bred

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Example Sentences

I could find no solution, unless it be that instinctive belief of a city-bred civilization that all joys are urban.

For these reasons the country-bred western youths are more liable to make a success of the work than the city-bred easterner.

The operator had very little patience with college girls, and this Adamless Eden palled on her city-bred soul.

That this spoiled, city-bred daughter of "Big Jim" Colton should wish to know my mother was beyond reasoning.

These types of city bred people whom he saw—girls particularly—and those born to wealth, had no appeal for him as yet.

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