- 1 connected with a town or city damage to both urban and rural environments urban areas urban life urban development (= the process of building towns and cities or making them larger) urban renewal/regeneration (= the process of improving the buildings, etc. in the poor parts of a town or city) efforts to control urban sprawl (= the spread of city buildings into the countryside) compare rural Wordfindercityamenity, city, ghetto, high-rise, metropolitan, population, slum, suburb, town, urban Wordfinderlocationisolated, location, neighbourhood, outskirts, provincial, residential, rough, rural, suburban, urban See related entries: House location
- 2connected with types of music such as rhythm and blues and reggae that are played by black musicians today’s urban music scene urban radio shows Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin urbanus, from urbs, urb- ‘city’.
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BrE BrE//ˈɜːbən//; NAmE NAmE//ˈɜːrbən//
[usually before noun] House locationCheck pronunciation: urban
