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semiurban

adj

Etymology

From semi- + 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 semiurban — “semi + urban”

Definitions

  1. Partially urban.

    • The scientists suspect that there are additional undetected cases because the patient lived in a semiurban area of Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, and she said she had no contact with apes or their meat.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for semiurban. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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