Usually means: Characterized by higher population density.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word URBAN:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. urban: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Urban, urban: Merriam-Webster
  3. urban: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. urban: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. urban: Collins English Dictionary
  6. urban: Vocabulary.com
  7. Urban, urban: Wordnik
  8. urban: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Urban, urban: Wiktionary
  10. urban: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. urban: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. urban: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. urban: Dictionary.com
  14. urban: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. urban: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Urban (bishop of Llandaff), Urban (gunfounder), Urban (name), Urban: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Urban: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. urban: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. urban: Rhymezone
  20. urban: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. urban: FreeDictionary.org
  22. urban: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. urban: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -urban: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Urban (disambiguation), urban: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban (disambiguation), urban: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Urban: Africa Glossary
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. URBAN: Acronym Finder
  4. Glossary of Population Terms (No longer online)
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. urban: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. urban: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

(Note: See urbaning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Urban)

adjective:  Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or happening or located in, a city or town; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of life in such a place, especially when contrasted with the countryside.
adjective:  Living in a city or town.
adjective:  Having authority or jurisdiction over a city or town.
adjective:  (US, proscribed, outdated) Relating to contemporary African American culture, especially in music.
adjective:  (US, UK, euphemistic, offensive) (of inhabitants or residents) Black; African American.
noun:  (uncommon) A male given name from Latin.
noun:  A surname originating as a patronymic.
noun:  An early Christian, also Urbane and Urbanus in various versions of the Bible. (biblical character)

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