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# urban

«urban» in Mova's school dictionary: **To do with towns and cities, not the countryside** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (urban)

### meaning for a pupil

To do with towns and cities, not the countryside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/urban/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science: urban areas, urban wildlife, urban and rural compared. In everyday life: urban transport, urban parks. Phrases: «urban area», «urban life», «urban myth» (a strange story many people believe but is not true).

### examples

- Most people in the UK live in urban areas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/urban/#x1)
- Foxes have learned to live in urban gardens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/urban/#x2)
- Urban roads are busy at rush hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/urban/#x3)
- We compared urban and rural life in geography. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/urban/#x4)
- The alligator in the sewer is just an urban myth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/urban/#x5)
- Urban parks give city children space to play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/urban/#x6)

### note

Opposite: rural (countryside). Suburban = on the edge of a city. Do not confuse with «urbane» (polite and smooth). «An urban area» takes «an».

### In the corpora

- ["Inner city" (especially US) is often used to mean a poor urban neighbourhood.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/19-money-and-poverty/21/)
- [A story about "a friend of a friend" that nobody can check is called an urban legend.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/17/)
- [The story of the man with a hook for a hand is an urban legend that has been told since at least the 1950s.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/6/)
- [The "calls coming from inside the house" story is an old urban legend that was turned into films.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «urban» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/urban/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.