urban

See also: Urban

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

urban (comparative more urban, superlative most urban)

1. Related to the (or any) city.
   • 2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[1], 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) Relating to contemporary African American culture.

Antonyms

• nonurban
• rural
• bucolic

Derived terms

• cyburban
• urban crawl
• urban culture
• urban district
• urbane
• urban fabric
• urbanism
• urbanist
• urbanite
• urbanity
• urbanization, urbanisation
• urbanize, urbanise
• urban legend
• urban renewal
• urban sanitary district
• urban sprawl

 

Translations

of the city; characteristic of city life

• Arabic: حَضَرِيّ (ḥaḍariyy), مَدَنِيّ (madaniyy)
• Belarusian: гарадскі́ (haradskí), ме́скі (mjéski)
• Breton: ^{(please verify)} kêr (br) (noun in apposition), ^{(please verify)} kêrel (adjective)
• Bulgarian: гра́дски (grádski)
• Catalan: urbà (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 城市的 (zh) (chéngshì de), 都市的 (zh) (dūshì de)

• Czech: městský (cs)
• Danish: bymæssig
• Dutch: stedelijk (nl), urbaan (nl), stads-
• Esperanto: urba
• Finnish: urbaani (fi)
• French: urbain (fr), citadin (fr) (of a person)
• Galician: urbano
• German: städtisch (de), urban (de), Stadt- (de)
• Greek: αστικός (el) m (astikós)
• Hebrew: עירוני m (ironí)
• Hungarian: városi (hu)
• Irish: uirbeach
• Italian: urbano (it) m
• Japanese: 都市の (ja) (としの, toshi no)
• Korean: 도시의 (ko) (dosiui)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

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• Latin: urbānus (la)
• Macedonian: градски (gradski)
• Manx: ard-valjagh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bymessig (no)

• Persian: شهری (fa) (šahri)
• Polish: miejski (pl)
• Portuguese: urbano (pt)
• Romanian: urban (ro)
• Russian: городско́й (ru) (gorodskój)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гра̀дскӣ

  Roman: gràdskī (sh)

• Slovak: mestský (sk)
• Slovene: mesten
• Spanish: urbano (es)
• Swedish: stads- (sv), urban (sv)
• Tagalog: panlungsod, panlunsod, lunsurin
• Tajik: шаҳрӣ (šahrī)
• Telugu: నగర (nagara)
• Turkish: kentsel (tr)
• Ukrainian: міськи́й (misʹkýj)
• Vietnamese: thành phố (vi)
• Welsh: trefol (cy)
• Yiddish: שטאָטיש (shtotish)

See also

• Urbanus

References

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

Anagrams

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

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Esperanto

Adjective

urban

1. accusative singular of urba

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German

Etymology

From Latin urbanus

Pronunciation

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

• Audio:

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Adjective

urban (comparative urbaner, superlative am urbansten)

1. urban

Synonyms

• städtisch

Further reading

• “urban” in Duden online

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin urbanus

Adjective

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

1. urban
2. urbane

References

• “urban” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin urbanus

Adjective

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

1. urban
2. urbane

References

• “urban” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• ürban

Etymology

From Latin urbānus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /yrˈbaŋ/

Adjective

urban

1. urban

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

ȕrbān (Cyrillic spelling у̏рба̄н, definite ȕrbānī)

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

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin urbānus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /urbáːn/

Adjective

urbȃn (not comparable)

1. urban

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Hard
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nom. sing.	urbán	urbána	urbáno
singular
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	urbán ind urbáni def	urbána	urbáno
genitive	urbánega	urbáne	urbánega
dative	urbánemu	urbáni	urbánemu
accusative	nominativeinan or genitiveanim	urbáno	urbáno
locative	urbánem	urbáni	urbánem
instrumental	urbánim	urbáno	urbánim
dual
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	urbána	urbáni	urbáni
genitive	urbánih	urbánih	urbánih
dative	urbánima	urbánima	urbánima
accusative	urbána	urbáni	urbáni
locative	urbánih	urbánih	urbánih
instrumental	urbánima	urbánima	urbánima
plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	urbáni	urbáne	urbána
genitive	urbánih	urbánih	urbánih
dative	urbánim	urbánim	urbánim
accusative	urbáne	urbáne	urbána
locative	urbánih	urbánih	urbánih
instrumental	urbánimi	urbánimi	urbánimi

Synonyms

• mésten