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urbanites

urbanites is the plural of urbanite.

Meaning of urbanite

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

Questions about urbanites

What is urbanites the plural of?
Urbanites is the plural of urbanite.

Words near urbanites in the dictionary

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

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