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antiurban

adj

Etymology

From anti- + urban.

  1. derived from *gʰerdʰ-✻ — “to encircle, enclose; a belt; an enclosure, fence”
  2. derived from urbānus — “of or belonging to a city, urban; of manners or style: like those of city dwellers: cultivated, polished, refined, sophisticated”
  3. borrowed from urbain — “belonging to a city, urban; courteous, refined, urbane”
  4. prefixed as antiurban — “anti + urban”

Definitions

  1. Showing a negative view of cities or city life

    • When I ask why so much of the humor on National Public Radio is antiurban, Kessler responds with one of Ian Shoales's most quoted lines: "If the city were a nice place to live, nobody would want to live there.
    • The District One headquarters of the Illinois Department of Transportation is about as antiurban as a building can get.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA