- [usually before noun] connected with a town or city
- urban and rural communities
- urban areas/centres
- the urban environment/landscape
- 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)
- The urban poor feel betrayed by everyone.
- urban life
- the urban population
- people of earlier generations who had not grown up in an urban setting
- the efficient use of urban space
- key principles of urban design
WordfinderWordfinderTopics Geographyb2, Buildingsb2 - [only before noun] connected with types of music such as rhythm and blues, reggae, soul, etc. 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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