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urbanite

urbanite noun: someone who lives in a city or similar urban area.

Noun (1)

urbanite (plural urbanites)

  1. Someone who lives in a city or similar urban area.
    • But an electric car doesn’t make sense for individual urbanites. Few of them drive enough.2024 January 18, Simon Kuper, “Electric cars are not the future”, in Financial Times
    Synonyms:
    city slicker, urban dweller, townie, city folk
  2. One of a demographic class of young, socially-conscious, urban professionals.

Noun (2)

urbanite (countable and uncountable, plural urbanites)

  1. Rock-like recycled building material from man-made sources.
    • 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.2002, Joseph F. Kennedy, The Art of Natural Building, →ISBN, page 107

urbanite meaning in Bengali and Malay

urbanite in Bengali

urbanite, city dweller, townie
শহুরে śohure, নগুরে nogure, টাউনিয়া ṭauniẏa, নাগরিক nagrik

urbanite in Malay

someone who lives in a city or similar urban area
anak kota, anak bandar

Synonyms of urbanite

Forms of urbanite

pluralurbanites

Origin of urbanite

From urban + -ite (“resident of a particular area”).

From urban + -ite (“rock or mineral”).

Words formed from urbanite

Questions about urbanite

What does urbanite mean?
Urbanite means someone who lives in a city or similar urban area.
What is urbanite in Bengali?
Urbanite in Bengali is শহুরে (śohure), নগুরে (nogure), টাউনিয়া (ṭauniẏa). See Urbanite meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is urbanite?
Urbanite is a noun.
What is the plural of urbanite?
The plural of urbanite is urbanites.

Words near urbanite in the dictionary

  1. Urbanistes
  2. urbanistic
  3. urbanistically
  4. urbanistics
  5. urbanists
  6. urbanite
  7. urbanites
  8. urbanities
  9. urbanitis
  10. urbanity
  11. urbanization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: urbanite (page history and authors); টাউনিয়া (Bengali) (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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