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Definition of urban adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

urban

adjective
 OPAL W
 
/ˈɜːbən/
 
/ˈɜːrbən/
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  1.  
     [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
    compare rural
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  2. [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
    3. Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin urbanus, from urbs, urb- ‘city’.
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