urban
IPA: ˈɝbʌn
noun
- (uncommon) 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. (biblical character)
adjective
- 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.
- Living in a city or town.
- Having authority or jurisdiction over a city or town.
- (US, proscribed, outdated) Relating to contemporary African American culture, especially in music.
- (US, UK, euphemistic, offensive) (of inhabitants or residents) Black; African American.
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Examples of "urban" in Sentences
- Will they have to cede to the demands of the Dervaes Family to stop using the term "urban homestead?"
- Critics such as blogger Crunchy Chicken claim that this trademark is unenforceable, since the term "urban homestead" has been in use since at least the 1970s.
- The term urban taliban is finding repeated expression on these pages and this term is not only distorting the issue but is also capable of creating confusions.
- The label urban fantasy. 15 years ago, urban fantasy was what we called stuff like Charles DeLint and the Borderlands series and all those rock 'n' roll elf stories.
- The Dervaes assert that they are protecting a legitimate business interest, and that their trademark of the term "urban homesteading" prevents corporations from doing the same thing.
- An eco-enthusiast in Pasadena, Calif., recently trademarked the phrase "urban homestead" and is now warning the authors and publishers cranking out urban-homesteading how-to books not to tread on the turf he has tried to fence in.
- By 2015, academics had coined the phrase "urban neo-Victorian dystopia" to describe the dramatic social and spatial changes in the city they had begun to compare, with only a little exaggeration, with the London described by Charles Dickens 160 years earlier.
- Finally, I should note that while I use the term urban tribe and its subcategories, in general young people in Mexico City reject identifying themselves in such terminologies—goth, rasta, etc.—even if they otherwise appear fully immersed in a specific subculture.
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