Urban

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Origin: Latin

Meaning: from Latin Urbanus meaning either "city dweller" or "of the city".

The word has become adopted into the English vocabulary referring to a city ir town. Another word related to it, urbane, is used to refer to someone with a suave or sophisticated manner characteristic of social life in the city.


Variants:

• Ourbanos (Biblical Greek)
• Urbanus (Latin)
• Urbain (French)
• Orbán (Hungarian)
• Urbano (Italian, Spanish)

Female forms:

• Urbana (Italian)