Definitions
the quality or character of life in a city or town
Word origin
From Middle English urbanitie, from Middle French urbanité, from Latin urbānitās, from urbānus (“belonging to a city”), with a sense of "having the manners of townspeople" in Classical Latin, from urbs (“city”); equivalent to urbane + -ity (sense 1) and urban + -ity (sense 2).
Used in a sentence
“The vaunted courtesy of the old school, the smooth urbanity that prevailed in former days [...]”
“Wealdon's two little visits explained perfectly the active urbanities of Captain Stanley Lake.”
“Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“City polish”8 letters
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