urban

See also Urban

English

Etymology

From Latin urbanus, itself from urbs (“city”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɜːbən/, SAMPA: /"3:rb@n/

  Rhymes: -ɜː(r)bən

• (US) IPA: /ˈɝbən/
• Hyphenation: ur‧ban

Adjective

urban (comparative more urban, superlative most urban)

1. related to the (or any) city
2. characteristic of city life.

Antonyms

• rural
• bucolic

Derived terms

urban crawl urban fabric urban legend urbane

urbanism urbanity urbanize urbanization

Translations

of the city; characteristic of city life

Arabic: حضري, متمدن Breton: kêr noun in apposition, kêrel adj Catalan: urbà (ca) Dutch: stedelijk, urbaan, stads- Finnish: urbaani (fi) French: urbain, citadin, - de ville Galician: urbano (gl) German: städtisch, urban, Stadt- Greek: αστικός (el) m. Irish: uirbeach (ga) Italian: urbano (it) m. Kurdish: شارستانی

Manx: ard-valjagh (gv) Persian: شهری (šahri) Polish: miejski m., miejska f., miejskie n. Portuguese: urbano (pt) Russian: городской (ru) m. Serbo-Croatian: Roman: gradski (sh) Cyrillic: градски (sh) Spanish: urbano (es) Telugu: నగర (nagara) Turkish: kentsel (tr) Welsh: trefol (cy)

See also

• Urbanus

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• Buran, unbar

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Esperanto

Adjective

urban

1. accusative singular of urba

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German

Adjective

urban (comparative urbaner, superlative am urbansten)

1. urban

Synonyms

• städtisch

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ûrbaːn/
• Hyphenation: ur‧ban

Adjective

ȕrbān (definite ȕrbānī, Cyrillic spelling у̏рба̄н)

1. urban

Declension

    indefinite forms

singular		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		urban	urbana	urbano
genitive		urbana	urbane	urbana
dative		urbanu	urbanoj	urbanu
accusative	inanimate animate	urban urbana	urbanu	urbano
vocative		urban	urbana	urbano
locative		urbanu	urbanoj	urbanu
instrumental		urbanim	urbanom	urbanim
plural		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		urbani	urbane	urbana
genitive		urbanih	urbanih	urbanih
dative		urbanim(a)	urbanim(a)	urbanim(a)
accusative		urbane	urbane	urbana
vocative		urbani	urbane	urbana
locative		urbanim(a)	urbanim(a)	urbanim(a)
instrumental		urbanim(a)	urbanim(a)	urbanim(a)

    definite forms

singular		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		urbani	urbana	urbano
genitive		urbanog(a)	urbane	urbanog(a)
dative		urbanom(u/e)	urbanoj	urbanom(u/e)
accusative	inanimate animate	urbani urbanog(a)	urbanu	urbano
vocative		urbani	urbana	urbano
locative		urbanom(e/u)	urbanoj	urbanom(e/u)
instrumental		urbanim	urbanom	urbanim
plural		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative		urbani	urbane	urbana
genitive		urbanih	urbanih	urbanih
dative		urbanim(a)	urbanim(a)	urbanim(a)
accusative		urbane	urbane	urbana
vocative		urbani	urbane	urbana
locative		urbanim(a)	urbanim(a)	urbanim(a)
instrumental		urbanim(a)	urbanim(a)	urbanim(a)

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Slovene

Adjective

urban (not comparable) (urbana, urbane, urbani, urbano)

1. urban

Synonyms

• mesten