urbn.

Brit.

/əːb/, U.S.

/ərb/

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: urban adj.

Etymology: Shortened < urban adj., probably after suburb n.Compare classical Latin urbs city (see urbs n.), an isolated borrowing of which in a naturalized form is found in the following quotation, representing the speech of a pretentious scholar:1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. vi. 31 We deambulate by the compites and quadrives of the Urb.

Originally Town Planning. Now chiefly colloquial.

An urban area, a city. Cf. 'burb n.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > city > [noun]

cityc1300

wonec1330

motec1390

daughter1535

civity1577

village1825

urbs1837

urb1952

1952 Jrnl. Town Planning Inst. Sept.–Oct. 257/1 At some point along this line there will be a threshold between urb and suburb.

1962 Jrnl. Archit. Educ. 17 103/1 Our present state of understanding of the urb tells us that the activity systems we are dealing with are not composed states but are process states.

1968 N.Y. Times Mag. 7 Jan. 25 The growth of American suburbia, fed by the yearning for a home of one's own, raises problems for urb and suburb alike.

1999 New Statesman 8 Nov. 41/1 Leave a suburb long enough and it will become an urb, requiring its own suburb.

2008 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) July 52/3 The most deliberately and self-consciously urban of all the world's urbs.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	urb
释义	urbn. Brit. /əːb/, U.S. /ərb/ Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: urban adj. Etymology: Shortened < urban adj., probably after suburb n.Compare classical Latin urbs city (see urbs n.), an isolated borrowing of which in a naturalized form is found in the following quotation, representing the speech of a pretentious scholar:1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. vi. 31 We deambulate by the compites and quadrives of the Urb. Originally Town Planning. Now chiefly colloquial. An urban area, a city. Cf. 'burb n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > city > [noun] cityc1300 cityc1300 wonec1330 motec1390 daughter1535 civity1577 village1825 urbs1837 urb1952 1952 Jrnl. Town Planning Inst. Sept.–Oct. 257/1 At some point along this line there will be a threshold between urb and suburb. 1962 Jrnl. Archit. Educ. 17 103/1 Our present state of understanding of the urb tells us that the activity systems we are dealing with are not composed states but are process states. 1968 N.Y. Times Mag. 7 Jan. 25 The growth of American suburbia, fed by the yearning for a home of one's own, raises problems for urb and suburb alike. 1999 New Statesman 8 Nov. 41/1 Leave a suburb long enough and it will become an urb, requiring its own suburb. 2008 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) July 52/3 The most deliberately and self-consciously urban of all the world's urbs. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1952
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