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preurban

adj

Etymology

From pre- + 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 preurban — “pre + urban”

Definitions

  1. Describing a society before urbanization

The neighborhood

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