urban

From Middle French urbain, from Latin urbanus, from urbs (“city”). Doublet of urbane.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɜːbən/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bən
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɝbən/
• Hyphenation: ur‧ban

urban (comparative more urban, superlative most urban)

1. Related to the (or any) city.

   urban life

   urban traffic

   • 2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly‎, volume 188, number 22, page 30:

     As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field. In Paris 22 hectares of roof have been planted, out of a potential total of 80 hectares.

2. Characteristic of city life.
3. (US, proscribed, outdated) Relating to contemporary African American culture, especially in music.
4. (US, UK, euphemistic, offensive) (of inhabitants or residents) Black; African American.

• The word "urban" in a musical context came to be controversial and it was described as perpetuating and reinforcing the racial stereotyping of black communities, especially black musicians,[1] and as a "catchall for music created by Black artists, regardless of genre", leading to the music industry's replacement of it with more appropriate terms.[2]
• "Urban" as a descriptor of black inhabitants or residents is an offensive and stereotypical usage; see Dictionary.com's "Historical usage of urban" for the explanation.[3]

• nonurban
• rural
• bucolic

• Urbanus

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• urban at OneLook Dictionary Search
• urban in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• “urban”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• Braun, Buran, Rabun, aburn, buran, unabr., unbar

urban

1. accusative singular of urba

From Latin urbanus.

• IPA^(key): /ʊʁˈbaːn/, [ʊɐ̯ˈbaːn]
• Rhymes: -aːn

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urban (strong nominative masculine singular urbaner, comparative urbaner, superlative am urbansten)

1. urban

   Synonym: städtisch

• “urban” in Duden online
• “urban” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Latin urbanus.

urban (neuter singular urbant, definite singular and plural urbane)

1. urban
2. urbane

• “urban” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin urbanus.

urban (neuter singular urbant, definite singular and plural urbane)

1. urban
2. urbane

• “urban” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ürban

From Latin urbānus.

• IPA^(key): /yrˈbaŋ/

urban

1. urban

From French urbain, from Latin urbanus.

urban m or n (feminine singular urbană, masculine plural urbani, feminine and neuter plural urbane)

1. urbane

• urbanitate

• IPA^(key): /ûrbaːn/
• Hyphenation: ur‧ban

ȕrbān (definite ȕrbānī, Cyrillic spelling у̏рба̄н)

1. urban

Ultimately from Latin urbānus.

• IPA^(key): /urbáːn/

urbȃn (not comparable)

1. urban

• mésten

• “urban”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran