urbanite
See also: urbanité
English
Noun
urbanite (plural urbanites)
- Someone who lives in a city or similar urban area.
- Synonyms: city slicker, urban dweller, (UK) townie
- Coordinate terms: ex-urbanite, exurbanite, suburbanite
- One of a demographic class of young, socially-conscious, urban professionals.
Translations
someone who lives in a city or similar urban area
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demographic class of young, socially-conscious, urban professional
Noun
urbanite (plural urbanites)
- Rock-like recycled building material from man-made sources.
- 2002, Joseph F. Kennedy, The Art of Natural Building, →ISBN, page 107:
- In Eugene, Oregon, Rob Bolman received a building permit for a straw bale house with a foundation made of stacked urbanite with a cement-sand mortar and a poured concrete bond beam on top.
Translations
rock-like recycled building material
Further reading
- “urbanite”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “urbanite”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “urbanite”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “urbanite”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
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