city-bred

[ sit-ee-bred ]

adjective
  1. reared in a city.

Origin of city-bred

1
First recorded in 1880–85; city + bred

Words Nearby city-bred

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How to use city-bred in a sentence

  • I could find no solution, unless it be that instinctive belief of a city-bred civilization that all joys are urban.

    The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard Eaton
  • For these reasons the country-bred western youths are more liable to make a success of the work than the city-bred easterner.

    Our National Forests | Richard H. Douai Boerker
  • The operator had very little patience with college girls, and this Adamless Eden palled on her city-bred soul.

  • That this spoiled, city-bred daughter of "Big Jim" Colton should wish to know my mother was beyond reasoning.

    The Rise of Roscoe Paine | Joseph C. Lincoln
  • These types of city bred people whom he saw—girls particularly—and those born to wealth, had no appeal for him as yet.

    The "Genius" | Theodore Dreiser