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Urban vs Semiurban - What's the difference?

urban | semiurban |

As adjectives the difference between urban and semiurban

is that urban is related to the (or any) city while semiurban is partially urban.

As a proper noun Urban

is a given name derived from Latin.

urban

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Related to the (or any) city.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-10
    • , author=Audrey Garric , title=Urban canopies let nature bloom , volume=188, issue=22, page=30 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) 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.}}
  • Characteristic of city life.

    • Antonyms

    * nonurban * rural * bucolic

    Derived terms

    * urban crawl * urban culture * urban fabric * urban legend * urbane * urbanism * urbanite * urbanity * urbanize, urbanise * urbanization, urbanisation * urban renewal

    See also

    * Urbanus

    References

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    Anagrams

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    semiurban

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Partially urban.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 5, author=Lawrence K. Altman, title=New Strain of H.I.V. Is Discovered, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The scientists suspect that there are additional undetected cases because the patient lived in a semiurban area of Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, and she said she had no contact with apes or their meat. }}