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urbanly

urbanly adverb: in an urban manner.

Adverb

urbanly (comparative more urbanly, superlative most urbanly)

  1. In an urban manner.
    • Rural Britain, except in its picturesqueness, with the peer, the squire and the parson, Giles and Hodge, and their ploughs and their flocks and herds, as objects of the landscape, has been beyond the interests of those within whose vision there are mainly pitheads, chimney-stacks or tramp steamers...1921, The World’s Work, volume XXXIX, New York, N.Y., page 510, column 1
    • Harding is a small-town man. Yet there is more misapprehension concerning Harding among the small-towners than there is among those of his critics who dwell urbanly, save among a certain noisy section who dwell urbanly in the editorial rooms of various daily newspapers. But both urbanly and...1923, Samuel G[eorge] Blythe, A Calm Review of a Calm Man, New York, N.Y.: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, page 11

Forms of urbanly

comparativemore urbanly
superlativemost urbanly

Origin of urbanly

From urban + -ly. Piecewise doublet of urbanely.

Questions about urbanly

What does urbanly mean?
Urbanly means in an urban manner.
What part of speech is urbanly?
Urbanly is an adverb.

Words near urbanly in the dictionary

  1. urbanizer
  2. urbanizers
  3. urbanizes
  4. urbanizing
  5. urbanlike
  6. urbanly
  7. urbanness
  8. urbano
  9. urbanocentric
  10. urbanoid
  11. urbanological

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