urban
adjEtymology
Borrowed from Middle French urbain (“belonging to a city, urban; courteous, refined, urbane”) (modern French urbain), or from its etymon Latin urbānus (“of or belonging to a city, urban; of manners or style: like those of city dwellers: cultivated, polished, refined, sophisticated”) + English -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Urbānus is derived from urbs (“city; walled town; Rome”) (further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to encircle, enclose; a belt; an enclosure, fence”) or *werbʰ- (“to enclose”)) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). For the euphemistic or proscribed term, it was coined by New York radio DJ Frankie Crocker in the early to mid-1970s as a synonym for Black music.
- derived from urbānus — “of or belonging to a city, urban; of manners or style: like those of city dwellers: cultivated, polished, refined, sophisticated”
Definitions
Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or happening or located in, a city or town
Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or happening or located in, a city or town; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of life in such a place, especially when contrasted with the countryside.
- urban life
- urban traffic
Living in a city or town.
- The Epithets of myce are thes; ſhort, ſmall, fearful, peaceable, ridiculous, ruſtik, or country mouſe, vrbane, or citty mouſe, […]
Having authority or jurisdiction over a city or town.
- All theſe Magiſtrats are but temporary, and have a time limited them; the Urbane or Citty Magiſtrats ſome of them continue in office 6. months, others 8. months, others are annuall; […]
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Relating to contemporary African American culture, especially in music.
Of an inhabitant or resident
Of an inhabitant or resident: black; African-American.
A male given name from Latin.
A surname originating as a patronymic.
An early Christian, also Urbane and Urbanus in various versions of the Bible.
- Grete wel Vrban, oure helpere in Crist Jhesus, and Stacchen, my derlyng.
The neighborhood
Derived
antiurban, cyburban, Ellesmere Urban, exurb, interurban, intraurban, peri-urban, preurban, rban boulevard, rurban, semiurban, single-point urban interchange, synurban, unurban, urban blight, urban boarding, urban canyon, urban contemporary, urban crawl, urban culture, urban death, urban decay, urban district, urban dweller, urban exploration, urban explorer, urban fabric, urban fantasy, urban fee, urban furniture, urbanicity, urbanish, urbanism, urbanist, urbanistic, urbanite, urbanitis, urbanity, urbanization, urbanisation · +36 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at urban. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at urban. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at urban
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA