urbanite

[ ur-buh-nahyt ]
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noun
  1. a resident of a city or urban community.

Origin of urbanite

1
First recorded in 1895–1900; urban + -ite1

Other words from urbanite

  • non·ur·ban·ite, noun

Words Nearby urbanite

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How to use urbanite in a sentence

  • It was the sort of day when cities are an abomination, and the soul of the veriest urbanite yearns to follow a gipsy pateran.

    Why Joan? | Eleanor Mercein Kelly

British Dictionary definitions for urbanite

urbanite

/ (ˈɜːbəˌnaɪt) /


noun
  1. a resident of an urban community; city dweller

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