urbanity
/ɝˈbæn.ə.ti/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.85 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The vaunted courtesy of the old school, the smooth urbanity that prevailed in former days [...]"
- "He only stayed a few days in London, to take the oaths and his seat in the House of Lords, a ceremony that was to take place on the morrow, and he held himself much indebted to the circumstance of spending his first evening at Lady Anne's, because the marquis of Wentworthdale had, with the utmost urbanity, offered to accompany him on that somewhat trying occasion,and he felt the value of his kindness not less than the courtesy evinced by a man of his rank and importance in the court and the House of Lords."
- "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."
- "[...], the majority of cases will differ as to "urbanity", as most of the evacuees were rural."
- "Evacuees, the majority of whom were rural persons, reported more tensions as the urbanity of the reception community increased"
Etymology
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).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɝˈbæn.ə.ti/
- British English: /əːˈbæn.ɪ.ti/