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urbanist

urbanist noun: a person who studies cities and their growth.

Noun (1)

urbanist (plural urbanists)

  1. A person who studies cities and their growth.
  2. An urban planner.

Noun (2) capitalized: Urbanist

Urbanist (plural Urbanists)

  1. A Poor Clare who follows or advocates the use of revised codes of conduct in place of the original precepts established by Saint Clare.
    • The chief house of the Clares in England stood near Aldgate; it was built by Blanche, queen of Navarre, and her husband Edmund, earl of Lancaster, Leicester and Darby, son to Henry III. and brother to Edward I. These nuns were Urbanists, and enjoyed revenues. They were called Clares or Minoresses...1759, Alban Butler, The Lives of the... Saints, volume IV, page 87
  2. (alternative) Alternative form of Urbaniste (“variety of pear”).

Forms of urbanist

pluralurbanists
pluralUrbanists

Origin of urbanist

From urban + -ist.

From Urban + -ist. In reference to Catholic nuns, from the promulgation of a separate rule of conduct by Pope Urban IV.

Words formed from urbanist

Questions about urbanist

What does urbanist mean?
Urbanist means a person who studies cities and their growth.
What part of speech is urbanist?
Urbanist is a noun.
What is the plural of urbanist?
The plural of urbanist is urbanists.

Words near urbanist in the dictionary

  1. urbanises
  2. urbanish
  3. urbanising
  4. urbanism
  5. urbanisms
  6. urbanist
  7. Urbaniste
  8. Urbanistes
  9. urbanistic
  10. urbanistically
  11. urbanistics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: urbanist (page history and authors); Urbanist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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