city-born

[ sit-ee-bawrn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

First recorded in 1590–1600; city + born

Boy is city-born and city-bred, and a day in the country is better than a thousand in street and park.

Both were city born and city bred, yet both were as unfashionable and untrammelled by custom as two children of the plains.

Here New England women, city born and bred, were living happily with their children while their husbands built the great Dam.

They were city-born, taught by the city to let other people live their own lives.

Harry, by the way, was a city-born bushman, who had been everything for some years.

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