Usually means: Characterized by higher population density.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word urban:

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  1. Urban, urban: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. urban: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. urban: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. urban: Collins English Dictionary
  5. urban: Vocabulary.com
  6. Urban, urban: Wordnik
  7. urban: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Urban, urban: Wiktionary
  9. urban: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. urban: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. urban: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. urban: Dictionary.com
  13. urban: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. urban: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Urban (bishop of Llandaff), Urban (gunfounder), Urban (name), Urban: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Urban: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. urban: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. urban: Rhymezone
  19. urban: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. urban: Free Dictionary
  21. urban: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. urban: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -urban: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Urban (disambiguation), urban: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban (disambiguation), urban: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Urban: Africa Glossary
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. URBAN: Acronym Finder
  4. Glossary of Population Terms (No longer online)
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. urban: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. urban: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

(Note: See urbaning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or happening or located in, a city or town; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of life in such a place, especially when contrasted with the countryside.
adjective:  Living in a city or town.
adjective:  Having authority or jurisdiction over a city or town.
adjective:  (US, proscribed, outdated) Relating to contemporary African American culture, especially in music.
adjective:  (US, UK, euphemistic, offensive) (of inhabitants or residents) Black; African American.
noun:  (uncommon) A male given name from Latin
noun:  A surname originating as a patronymic.
noun:  An early Christian, also Urbane and Urbanus in various versions of the Bible. (biblical character)

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