urbanite

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who lives in a city or similar urban area.
    — But an electric car doesn’t make sense for individual urbanites. Few of them drive enough.
  2. Rock-like recycled building material from man-made sources. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  3. One of a demographic class of young, socially-conscious, urban professionals.

词形变化

urbanites plural urbanites plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English urban
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English urbanite
From urban + -ite (“resident of a particular area”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
English urban
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English urbanite
From urban + -ite (“rock or mineral”).
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