单词 | urbs |
释义 | urbsn. A city as a technical entity or in contrast to a suburb, etc. 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 1837 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 42 163/1 The walls, ditches, ramparts, Pomerium, and other limits by which the ‘urbs’ is defined. 1901 Virginia Law Reg. 7 481 Urban servitudes which grow out of public necessity without an ‘urbs’. 1954 Listener 19 Dec. 834/1 If the life of the urbs is harsh, so the music might be harsh. 1993 A. Rich What is found There xvi. 119 Suburbs that never knew an urbs, never a civic center or heart beat. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1837 |
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