urban

B2 CET-4 Oxf 3000 高中 FREQ #7346 ★★★☆☆

a. 都市的, 住在都市的, 习惯于都市的 [法] 城市的, 都市的, 市区的

发音

UK /ˈɜːb(ə)n/
其它
US /ˈɜɹbən/

词形变化

more urban 比较级 most urban 最高级

别名

urbane

教材释义与例句

形容词

城市的；住在都市的

relating to towns and cities

unemployment in urban areas

城市地区的失业状况

the deprived sections of the urban population

城市人口中的贫困群体

释义与例句

adj. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or happening or located in, a city or town; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of life in such a place, especially when contrasted with the countryside.

    城市的

    都市的

    urban life

    urban traffic

  2. 2.

    Living in a city or town.

  3. 3.

    Having authority or jurisdiction over a city or town.

  4. 4.

    Relating to contemporary African American culture, especially in music.

    美国 古体
  5. 5.

    Of an inhabitant or resident: black; African-American.

    英国 美国 委婉 冒犯

词汇关系

形容词

反义词 1

rural

近义相关 3

citified cityfied citylike

相关短语

urban legend n. 都市传奇 urban planner 城市规划师 urban planning 城市规划 urban sprawl 城市扩张(指市区失去控制地向郊区延伸) urban sanitary district urban boarding Urban Cowboy urban explorer urban exploration urban explorers urban fabric urban crawl urban myth n. 城市神话（很多人相信但实际上并不真实的离奇故事） urban reserve

词源

Borrowed from Middle French urbain (“belonging to a city, urban; courteous, refined, urbane”) (modern French urbain), or from its etymon Latin urbānus (“of or belonging to a city, urban; of manners or style: like those of city dwellers: cultivated, polished, refined, sophisticated”) + English -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Urbānus is derived from urbs (“city; walled town; Rome”) (further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to encircle, enclose; a belt; an enclosure, fence”) or *werbʰ- (“to enclose”)) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). For the euphemistic or proscribed term, it was coined by New York radio DJ Frankie Crocker in the early to mid-1970s as a synonym for Black music.

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