From urban + -ite (“resident of a particular area”).
urbanite (plural urbanites)
- Someone who lives in a city or similar urban area.
- Synonyms: city slicker, urban dweller, (UK) townie
- Coordinate terms: ex-urbanite, exurbanite, suburbanite
- One of a demographic class of young, socially-conscious, urban professionals.
someone who lives in a city or similar urban area
- Catalan: ciutadà (ca) m, urbanita m or f
- Danish: bybo c, byboer c
- Dutch: stedeling (nl) m
- Esperanto: urbano (eo)
- Finnish: kaupunkilainen (fi), urbaani (fi)
- French: citadin (fr)
- Georgian: ქალაქელი (kalakeli), ქალაქში მცხოვრები (kalakši mcxovrebi), ქალაქის მკვიდრი (kalakis mḳvidri), ქალაქელი ადამიანი (kalakeli adamiani)
- German: Städter (de) m, Stadtbewohner (de) m, Städterin (de) f, Stadtbewohnerin (de) f
- Middle High German: steter
- Irish: duine cathrach m
- Japanese: 都会人 (ja) (tokaijin)
- Korean: 도시 사람 (dosi saram)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: شاری (şarî)
- Kyrgyz: шаардык (ky) (şaardık)
- Manx: ard-valjagh m
- Pannonian Rusyn: варощань m pers (varoščanʹ), варощанка f (varoščanka)
- Polish: mieszczanin (pl), mieszczanka (pl) f
- Romanian: orășean (ro) m, orășeană (ro) f
- Russian: горожа́нин (ru) m (gorožánin)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: měsćanaŕ m
- Spanish: urbanita m or f
- Swedish: stadsbo (sv) c
- Tocharian B: riññe ?
- Welsh: trefwr m
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demographic class of young, socially-conscious, urban professional
From urban + -ite (“rock or mineral”).
urbanite (plural urbanites)
- Rock-like recycled building material from man-made sources.
2002, Joseph F. Kennedy, The Art of Natural Building, →ISBN, page 107:In Eugene, Oregon, Rob Bolman received a building permit for a straw bale house with a foundation made of stacked urbanite with a cement-sand mortar and a poured concrete bond beam on top.
rock-like recycled building material
- “urbanite”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “urbanite”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “urbanite”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “urbanite”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
