urbanite

[ur-buh-nahyt]

noun

1. a resident of a city or urban community.

urbanite

/ ˈɜːbəˌnaɪt /

noun

1. a resident of an urban community; city dweller

Other Word Forms

• nonurbanite noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of urbanite¹

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

Example Sentences

Every urbanite knows that a variety of disparate worlds and cultures often exist within the same city’s limits and that for reasons practical and shameful some people never venture into certain neighborhoods.

Read more on Salon

Though this is a story about an urbanite plunging into treacherous conditions, the camping itself appears easy.

Read more on New York Times

To celebrate, they wanted to do something big, loud, and expensive, which is fitting for their station in life—urbanite creative-industry types who are old enough to not be broke, but young enough to not yet have kids.

Read more on Slate

Frankly, there just aren’t many Democratic politicians left who can fuse real support anymore from the F and L portions of the party acronym, and certainly not in the way Wellstone could while remaining beloved by urbanite liberals focused on cultural issues.

Read more on Washington Post

Everyone I spoke to is a middle class urbanite living in Moscow.

Read more on Slate

Related Words

• citizen 
• dweller 
• inhabitant 
• inmate 
• local 
• native 
• resident 
• tenant