[onlybeforenoun] connected with a town or city:
damage to both urban and rural environments * urban areas / centres / populations * urban life / unrest * urban development (= the process of building towns and cities or making them larger) * urban renewal / regeneration (= the process of improving the buildings, etc. in the poor parts of a town or city) * efforts to control urban sprawl (= the spread of city buildings into the countryside)
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for urban is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is urban a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, urban is tagged as adjective.
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