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Definition of Urban

Urban

  1. Of or belonging to a city or town; as, an urban population.
  2. Belonging to, or suiting, those living in a city; cultivated; polite; urbane; as, urban manners.

Urban Quotations

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
Irving Babbitt

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Marshall McLuhan

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
Ezra Pound

The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.
Jerry Garcia

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.
Tony Campolo
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Urban Translations

urban in Dutch is stads-, stedelijk, stads
urban in French is citadin
urban in Italian is urbano
urban in Latin is urbanus
urban in Portuguese is urbano
urban in Spanish is urbano, municipal
urban in Swedish is stads-

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