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Urban vs Towny - What's the difference?

urban | towny |

As adjectives the difference between urban and towny

is that urban is related to the (or any) city while towny is characteristic of a town.

As a proper noun Urban

is a given name derived from Latin.

As a noun towny is

an alternative spelling of lang=en.

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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    towny

    English

    Noun

    (townies)

    • Adjective

    (townier)
  • Characteristic of a town.
  • * 1947 , Lynn Doyle, Green oranges (page 87)
    • The cousin might get the farm at Elias's death; but there was no telling. Elias didn't like him. He and his family were too towny for Elias. There was a danger that Elias might put the farm up for public auction, and live his latter days on the price.