URBAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does urban mean? 

• URBAN (adjective)
  The adjective URBAN has 2 senses:

1. relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area

2. located in or characteristic of a city or city life

  Familiarity information: URBAN used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• URBAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

urban development

Pertainym:

city (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Derivation:

urbanity (the quality or character of life in a city or town)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Located in or characteristic of a city or city life

Context example:

urban manners

Similar:

citified; city-born; city-bred; cityfied (being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person)

city-like (resembling a city)

urbanised; urbanized (made urban in nature; taking on urban characteristics)

Antonym:

rural (living in or characteristic of farming or country life)

Derivation:

urbanity (the quality or character of life in a city or town)

urbanize (make more industrial or city-like)

urbanize (impart urban habits, ways of life, or responsibilities upon)

 Context examples 

And while the children tested for the study lived in rural communities, the researchers said it's unlikely children in urban communities are any less at risk.

(Infants, Toddlers at More Risk from Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke than Thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

About 90 per cent of the plastics that filter into the oceans come from just 10 of the world’s rivers which serve as conduits from urban areas.

(Microplastic pollution adds to oceans’ problems, scidev.net)

“But human activity does present a challenge for using this tool in an urban setting.”

(Mosquitos rendered infertile by biological engineering, SciDev.Net)

For many who live in urban environments, light at night is more common and should be considered.

(Sleeping with artificial light at night associated with weight gain in women, National Institutes of Health)

A new study finds vitamin D may be protective among asthmatic obese children living in urban environments with high indoor air pollution.

(Vitamin D may protect against pollution-associated asthma symptoms in obese children, National Institutes of Health)

In relatively unpolluted urban neighbourhoods trees did not have the same impact.

(Asthma Attacks Reduced in Tree-Lined Urban Neighborhoods, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This point-of-collection approach to water treatment could be a transformative strategy for reducing gastro-intestinal disease burden in low-income urban communities, said Pickering, assistant professor at Tufts University in the US.

(Chlorine dispensers fitted to public taps cut child diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)

The study also shows that micronutrient deficiency to be worse in India’s urban areas than in the rural hinterland.

(Course grains better than rice for health, environment, SciDev.Net)

A large and densely populated urban area; a city specified in an address.

(City, NCI Thesaurus)

But it’s the projected reductions in pre-monsoon river flows and changes in the monsoon that will hit hardest, throwing urban water systems and food and energy production off kilter.

(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)