urban

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Relating to or located in a city or town.

   More and more people are moving to urban areas for work.

2. 2
   adj

   Relating to modern Black popular culture, especially in music.

   The radio station plays mostly urban music.

Common collocations

• urban area Adjective + noun
• urban park Adjective + noun
• urban legend Adjective + noun
• urban sprawl Adjective + noun

Borrowed from Middle French urbain (“belonging to a city, urban; courteous, refined, urbane”) (modern French urbain), or from its etymon Latin urbānus (“of or belonging to a city, urban; of manners or style: like those of city dwellers: cultivated, polished, refined, sophisticated”) + English -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Urbānus is derived from urbs (“city; walled town; Rome”) (further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to encircle, enclose; a belt; an enclosure, fence”) or *werbʰ- (“to enclose”)) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or p…

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