What is the difference between city and urban?
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A large settlement, bigger than a town.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city'; the ' city of one's dreams.
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, title= (lb) The central business district; downtown.
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Related to the (or any) city.
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, author=Audrey Garric
, title=Urban canopies let nature bloom
, volume=188, issue=22, page=30
, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
Characteristic of city life.
Urban is a antonym of city.
As proper nouns the difference between city and urban
is that city is a popular shortened form of the City of London, the historic core of London where the Roman settlement of Londinium was established while Urban is a given name derived from Latin.As a noun city
is a large settlement, bigger than a town.As an adjective urban is
related to the (or any) city.city
English
(wikipedia city)Alternative forms
* cyteNoun
(cities)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city ’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
Derived terms
(Terms derived from the above definition of "city") * citify * citizen * city banker * city block * city boy * city center * city centre * city clerk * city desk * city district * city father * city girl * city hall * city limit * city line * city man * city manager * city planning * city room * city slicker * city-state * cityscape * citywide * (l) * holy city * inner city/inner-city * sister city * the city * twin city (city)See also
* metropolis * megalopolis * megacityStatistics
* 1000 English basic words ----urban
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field. In Paris 22 hectares of roof have been planted, out of a potential total of 80 hectares.}}