urbaniteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

urbanite (plural urbanites)

1. Someone who lives in a city or similar urban area.

   Synonyms: city slicker, urban dweller, (UK) townie

   Coordinate terms: ex-urbanite, exurbanite, suburbanite

   • 2024 January 18, Simon Kuper, “Electric cars are not the future”, in Financial Times‎:

     But an electric car doesn’t make sense for individual urbanites. Few of them drive enough.

2. One of a demographic class of young, socially-conscious, urban professionals.

語源 2

From urban +‎ -ite (“rock or mineral”).

名詞

urbanite (countable and uncountable, plural urbanites)

1. Rock-like recycled building material from man-made sources.
   • 2002, Joseph F. Kennedy, The Art of Natural Building, →ISBN, page 107:

     In Eugene, Oregon, Rob Bolman received a building permit for a straw bale house with a foundation made of stacked urbanite with a cement-sand mortar and a poured concrete bond beam on top.

Further reading

• “urbanite”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “urbanite”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “urbanite”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “urbanite”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

アナグラム

• braunite, burinate