| 释义 |
urbanite|ˈɜːbənaɪt|
[f. urban a. and n. + -ite1.]
A dweller in a city or town.
1897Advance (Chicago) 29 Apr. 542/1 They will capture streets.., will say to urbanites and suburbanites, ‘Stand and deliver.’ 1927Irish Rosary July 508 All comes from splendid organizing, bringing peasants, villagers, townsmen and urbanites to meet..and work with bishops, priests, university men. 1960Twentieth Cent. Apr. 347 The urbanite's usual excessive enthusiasm for the beauties of nature. 1979Church Times 29 June 10, I was..only doing what hundred of thousands of other Londoners do every day, as do urbanites in other big cities. |