city-born

[ sit-ee-bawrn ]

adjective

1. born bear born in a city.

Word History and Origins

Origin of city-born¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; city + born

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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