urban

• adj.都市；都市部に住む
• n. （都市）人の名前；（西）Urvan；（スロバキア）Urbán；（ドイツ語、ロシア語、ローマ語、ハンガリー語、セルビア語、ポーランド語、チェコ語、スウェーデン語、イタリア語）Urbán；（英語）Upham；（フランス語）ürbán.

ラテン語のurbanus、都市、ローマ都市から。

urban

urban: [17] Urban comes from Latin urbānus, a derivative of urbs ‘city’ (a word of unknown origin). It was preceded into English by urbane [16], which is essentially the same word, but came via Old French urbaine. It was originally used as urban is now, but after urban arrived it gradually took the metaphorical path to ‘smooth, sophisticated’. The derivatives suburb and suburban date from the 14th and 17th centuries respectively; and suburbia was coined in the 1890s.
=> suburban, urbane

urban (adj.)

"characteristic of city life, pertaining to cities or towns," 1610s (but rare before 1830s), from Latin urbanus "of or pertaining to a city or city life; in Rome," also "in city fashion, polished, refined, cultivated, courteous," but also sometimes "witty, facetious, bold, impudent;" as a noun, "city dweller," from urbs (genitive urbis) "city, walled town," of unknown origin.

The word gradually emerged in this sense as urbane became restricted to manners and styles of expression. In late 20c. American English gradually acquiring a suggestion of "African-American." Urban renewal, euphemistic for "slum clearance," is attested from 1955, American English. Urban sprawl recorded by 1958. Urban legend attested by 1980.

Urban

masc. proper name, from Latin urbanus "refined, courteous," literally "of a city" (see urban).

1. The government is spending billions of dollars on new urban rail projects.

政府は数十億元を新都市鉄道プロジェクトに費やしている。

2.There are problems of urban decay and gang violence.

都市の衰退とギャング暴力の問題がある。

3.Wanton violence is now becoming a regular feature of urban life.

野放図な暴行は、都市生活の中でますます見慣れてきた。

4.Waits sang about the boozy netherworld of urban America.

ウェーツは、米国の都市で酒を飲んで豪快に飲む下層の世界を歌っている。

5.The whole urban sprawl of Ankara contains over 2.6 m people.

アンカラは、恣意的に広がる都市全体で260万人以上の人口を収容している。