{
    "term": "urban",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "connected with a town or city",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**urban and rural** communities"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**urban areas/centres**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **urban environment/landscape**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**urban development** (= the process of building towns and cities or making them larger)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**urban renewal/regeneration** (= the process of improving the buildings, etc. in the poor parts of a town or city)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "efforts to control **urban sprawl** *(= the spread of city buildings into the countryside)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**The urban poor** feel betrayed by everyone."
                },
                {
                    "text": "urban life"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the urban population"
                },
                {
                    "text": "people of earlier generations who had not grown up in an urban setting"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the efficient use of urban space"
                },
                {
                    "text": "key principles of urban design"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Geography", "Buildings"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "connected with types of music such as rhythm and blues, reggae, soul, etc. that are played by black musicians",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "today’s urban music scene"
                },
                {
                    "text": "urban radio shows"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɜːbən/",
                "audio": "ur/urban/urban__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɜːrbən/",
                "audio": "ur/urban/urban__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 17th cent.: from Latin urbanus, from urbs, urb- ‘city’."
}