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urban

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1. urban - Adjective

2. Urban - Proper noun

Meaning

Of or belonging to a city or town; as, an urban population.

Belonging to, or suiting, those living in a city; cultivated; polite; urbane; as, urban manners.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad and incomplete in the urban compound. Marshall McLuhan

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. John Berger

I was familiar with that and "Rio Bravo.” "Rio Bravo” was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time. John Leguizamo

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door. Charles Lamb

New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him. Frank Lloyd Wright

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. Irving Babbitt

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