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urbanite

noun

Etymology

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

  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. suffixed as urbanite — “urban + ite”

Definitions

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

    • 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.

  3. Rock-like recycled building material from man-made sources.

    • 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.

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