urb
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of urb
First recorded in 1965–70; back formation from suburb
Example Sentences
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Amer was kept under house arrest at his villa in the fashionable Cairo sub urb of Giza, where last week some Egyptian officers came to question him further.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because of their comfortable incomes, uniform backgrounds and treelined, planned neighborhoods, some Los Alamos citizens have referred to their community as "a suburb without an urb to be sub to."
From Time Magazine Archive
Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum is strictly from Eastern urb and suburb, but went into training for the story by camping out at Jackson Hole, Wyo., and some of his delight rubs off in the telling.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the gardener's death the dean had this motto engraved around the sun-dial in the garden, "Goa bou tyo urb us in ess, 1838."
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse
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