city dweller

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• city dweller — one who lives in a city, city resident, urban dweller …   English contemporary dictionary

• city dweller — Synonyms and related words: big city man, bourgeois, burgess, burgher, city man, city slicker, exurbanite, oppidan, suburbanite, townee, towner, townfolk, townfolks, townsman, townspeople, townswoman, urbanite, villager, villageress …   Moby Thesaurus

• city slicker — ☆ city slicker n. Informal a city dweller regarded, esp. by rural people, as a smooth, tricky person …   English World dictionary

• dweller — [[t]dwe̱lə(r)[/t]] dwellers N COUNT: supp N A city dweller or slum dweller, for example, is a person who lives in the kind of place or house indicated. The number of city dwellers is growing... But in some respects cave dwellers were far cleverer …   English dictionary

• city slicker — cit′y slick′er n. usage: This term is usually used with disparaging intent, implying that the city dweller is slick, smooth talking, cleverly deceptive, or ill suited to a rural environment. off sts Usually Disparaging. (a term used by rural… …   From formal English to slang

• city — cit|y W1S1 [ˈsıti] n plural cities [Date: 1100 1200; : Old French; Origin: cité, from Latin civitas citizenship, state, city of Rome , from civis; CIVIC] 1.) a large important town ▪ New York City ▪ …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• city — n. (pl. ies) 1 a a large town. b Brit. (strictly) a town created a city by charter and containing a cathedral. c US a municipal corporation occupying a definite area. 2 (the City) a the part of London governed by the Lord Mayor and the… …   Useful english dictionary

• city — / sIti/ noun 1 (C) a large important town, especially one with a cathedral: New York City | a capital city | city dweller (=someone who lives in a city) 2 the people who live in a city: The city has been living in fear since last week s… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• city slicker — noun a city dweller with sophisticated manners and clothing • Syn: ↑city boy • Hypernyms: ↑slicker * * * noun, pl ⋯ ers [count] informal + often disapproving : someone who lives in a city and does not understand what life outside a city is like… …   Useful english dictionary

• city slicker — Synonyms and related words: big city man, bourgeois, burgess, burgher, city dweller, city man, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, exurbanite, man of experience, man about town, oppidan, slicker, sophisticate, suburbanite, townee, towner, townfolk,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• city slicker — n. (Informal) person from a large city who is overly sophisticated, stylish and sophisticated city person, sophisticated city dweller …   English contemporary dictionary