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Synonyms for urban
ˈɜr bənur·ban

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  1. urbanadjective

    Antonyms:
    rural, bucolic

  2. urbanadjective

    , rather rare in English.

    Antonyms:
    bucolic, rural

  3. urbanadjective

    Antonyms:
    bucolic, rural

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. urbanadjective

    relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area

    "urban sociology"; "urban development"

    Antonyms:
    folksy, pastoral, arcadian, bucolic, rustic, agrarian, agrestic, agricultural, countrified, countryfied, campestral, hobnailed, country-style, rural, farming(a), cracker-barrel, country-bred, homespun

  2. urbanadjective

    located in or characteristic of a city or city life

    "urban property owners"; "urban affairs"; "urban manners"

    Antonyms:
    agrestic, homespun, cracker-barrel, folksy, pastoral, arcadian, rustic, countryfied, countrified, agricultural, campestral, farming(a), country-style, agrarian, bucolic, hobnailed, rural, country-bred

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How to use urban in a sentence?

  1. Juliette Kayyem:

    It is very likely you are going to want the Pfizer vaccine to go to urban areas because it has to be frozen. That easier to do in urban areas than in rural areas.

  2. Kareem Lanier:

    He asks us,' What do you all want to do ? You all want some cabinet positions ? You all want ambassadorships ? ... This is our country now. What do you all want to do ?' And Darrell Scott told Darrell Scott,' No we don't want jobs. What we want to do is make sure that the people in urban America are good,'.

  3. David Malone:

    Worldwide, e-waste constitutes a valuable 'urban mine', a large potential reservoir of recyclable materials.

  4. Chris Helsel:

    With mobility companies looking to the sky for the answer to the challenges of urban transport and congestion, our work on advanced tire architectures and materials led us to imagine a wheel that could serve both as a traditional tire on the road and as a propulsion system in the sky.

  5. Susan Anderson:

    We will continue to work with communities and governments to ensure that we create an urban aviation rideshare network that is safe, quiet [ and ] environmentally conscious.


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