urban

«urban» in Mova's school dictionary: To do with towns and cities, not the countryside — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (urban)

meaning for a pupil

To do with towns and cities, not the countryside. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and science: urban areas, urban wildlife, urban and rural compared. In everyday life: urban transport, urban parks. Phrases: «urban area», «urban life», «urban myth» (a strange story many people believe but is not true).

examples

• Most people in the UK live in urban areas. tree →
• Foxes have learned to live in urban gardens. tree →
• Urban roads are busy at rush hour. tree →
• We compared urban and rural life in geography. tree →
• The alligator in the sewer is just an urban myth. tree →
• Urban parks give city children space to play. tree →

note

Opposite: rural (countryside). Suburban = on the edge of a city. Do not confuse with «urbane» (polite and smooth). «An urban area» takes «an».

In the corpora

• "Inner city" (especially US) is often used to mean a poor urban neighbourhood.
• A story about "a friend of a friend" that nobody can check is called an urban legend.
• The story of the man with a hook for a hand is an urban legend that has been told since at least the 1950s.
• The "calls coming from inside the house" story is an old urban legend that was turned into films.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «urban» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.