urbanite

See also: urbanité

English

Etymology 1

urban +‎ -ite (“resident of a particular area”)

Noun

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

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

Translations

someone who lives in a city or similar urban area

• Catalan: ciutadà (ca) m, urbanita m or f
• Danish: bybo c, byboer c
• Dutch: stedeling (nl) m
• Finnish: kaupunkilainen (fi), urbaani (fi)
• French: citadin (fr)
• Georgian: ქალაქელი (kalakeli), ქალაქში მცხოვრები (kalakši mcxovrebi), ქალაქის მკვიდრი (kalakis mḳvidri), ქალაქელი ადამიანი (kalakeli adamiani)
• German: Städter (de) m, Stadtbewohner (de) m, Städterin (de) f, Stadtbewohnerin (de) f

  Middle High German: steter

• Irish: duine cathrach m
• Japanese: 都会人 (tokaijin)
• Korean: 도시 사람 (dosi saram)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: شاری (şarî)

• Kyrgyz: шаардык (ky) (şaardık)
• Manx: ard-valjagh m
• Polish: mieszczanin (pl), mieszczanka (pl) f
• Romanian: orășean (ro) m, orășeană (ro) f
• Russian: горожа́нин (ru) m (gorožánin)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: měsćanaŕ m

• Spanish: urbanita m or f
• Swedish: stadsbo (sv) c
• Tocharian B: riññe ?
• Welsh: trefwr m

demographic class of young, socially-conscious, urban professional

Etymology 2

urban +‎ -ite (“rock or mineral”)

Noun

urbanite (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.

Translations

rock-like recycled building material

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.

Anagrams

• braunite, burinate