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单词 urbs
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urbsn.

Brit. /əːbz/, U.S. /ərbz/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin urbs.
Etymology: < classical Latin urbs (see urban adj. and n.).
A city as a technical entity or in contrast to a suburb, etc.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > city > [noun]
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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).
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