urbanite

See also: urbanité

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *werbʰ-der.

Proto-Italic *worβis?

Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰosder.?

Latin urbs

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nos

Proto-Italic *-ānos

Latin -ānus

Latin urbānusder.

Middle French urbainbor.

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Latin urbānus

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Latin -ānus

Old French -ainder.

Middle English -an

English -an

English urban

Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.

Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.

Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.

Latin -ītēslbor.

French -iteder.

English -ite

English urbanite

From urban + -ite (“resident of a particular area”).

Noun

urbanite (plural urbanites)

1. Someone who lives in a city or similar urban area.

   Synonyms: city slicker, urban dweller, (UK) townie, (dated) city folk

   Coordinate terms: ex-urbanite, exurbanite, suburbanite

   • 2024 January 18, Simon Kuper, “Electric cars are not the future”, in Financial Times‎^[1]:

     But an electric car doesn’t make sense for individual urbanites. Few of them drive enough.

2. One of a demographic class of young, socially-conscious, urban professionals.

Derived terms

• nonurbanite

Translations

someone who lives in a city or similar urban area

• Belarusian: гараджа́нін m (haradžánin), гараджа́нка f (haradžánka), място́вец m (mjastóvjec)
• Catalan: ciutadà (ca) m, urbanita m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 城市居民 (chéngshì jūmín), 城裡人 / 城裏 / 城里人 (chénglǐrén)

• Danish: bybo c, byboer c
• Dutch: stedeling (nl) m
• Esperanto: urbano (eo)
• Estonian: linlane
• Finnish: kaupunkilainen (fi), urbaani (fi)
• French: citadin (fr) m or f, citadine (fr) f
• Georgian: ქალაქელი (kalakeli), ქალაქში მცხოვრები (kalakši mcxovrebi), ქალაქის მკვიდრი (kalakis mḳvidri), ქალაქელი ადამიანი (kalakeli adamiani)
• German: Städter (de) m, Stadtbewohner (de) m, Städterin (de) f, Stadtbewohnerin (de) f

  Middle High German: steter

• Irish: duine cathrach m
• Japanese: 都会人 (ja) (とかいじん, tokaijin)
• Korean: 도시인(都市人) (dosiin)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: شاری (şarî)

• Kyrgyz: шаардык (ky) (şaardık)
• Malay: anak kota, anak bandar
• Manx: ard-valjagh m
• Pannonian Rusyn: варощань m pers (varoščanʹ), варощанка f (varoščanka)
• Polish: mieszczanin (pl) m pers, mieszczanka (pl) f, miastowy (pl) m pers, miastowa f
• Portuguese: urbanita m or f
• Romanian: orășean (ro) m, orășeană (ro) f
• Russian: горожа́нин (ru) m (gorožánin), горожа́нка (ru) f (gorožánka)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: měsćanaŕ m

• Spanish: urbanita (es) m or f
• Swedish: stadsbo (sv) c
• Tocharian B: riññe ?
• Ukrainian: містяни́н m (mistjanýn), містя́нка f (mistjánka)
• Welsh: trefwr m

demographic class of young, socially-conscious, urban professional

• Polish: mieszczuch (pl) m pers, mieszczka (pl) f

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *werbʰ-der.

Proto-Italic *worβis?

Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰosder.?

Latin urbs

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nos

Proto-Italic *-ānos

Latin -ānus

Latin urbānusder.

Middle French urbainbor.

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Latin urbānus

▲

Latin -ānus

Old French -ainder.

Middle English -an

English -an

English urban

Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.

Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.

Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.

Latin -ītēslbor.

French -iteder.

English -ite

English urbanite

From urban + -ite (“rock or mineral”).

Noun

urbanite (countable and uncountable, plural urbanites)

1. Rock-like recycled building material from man-made sources.
   • 2002, Joseph F. Kennedy, The Art of Natural Building, →ISBN, page 107:

     In Eugene, Oregon, Rob Bolman received a building permit for a straw bale house with a foundation made of stacked urbanite with a cement-sand mortar and a poured concrete bond beam on top.

Translations

rock-like recycled building material

• Polish: urbanit m inan

Further reading

• “urbanite”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “urbanite”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “urbanite”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “urbanite”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

Anagrams

• braunite, burinate