urban
(adjective) located in or characteristic of a city or city life; “urban property owners”; “urban affairs”; “urban manners”
urban
(adjective) relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area; “urban sociology”; “urban development”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
urban (comparative more urban, superlative most urban)
Related to the (or any) city.
Characteristic of city life.
(US) Relating to contemporary African American culture.
• nonurban
• rural
• bucolic
• Braun, Buran, Rabun, aburn, unabr., unbar
Urban
(uncommon) A male given name from Latin
A patronymic surname.
An early Christian, also Urbane and Urbanus in various versions of the Bible. (biblical character)
• Braun, Buran, Rabun, aburn, unabr., unbar
Source: Wiktionary
Ur"ban, a. Etym: [L. urbanus belonging to the urbs, urbis, a city: cf. F. urbain. Cf. Urbane.]
1. Of or belonging to a city or town; as, an urban population.
2. Belonging to, or suiting, those living in a city; cultivated; polite; urbane; as, urban manners. Urban servitude. See Predial servitude, under Servitude.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 April 2025
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
