URBANITES Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

urbanites

noun

plural of urbanite

as in suburbanites

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as in sophisticates

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Noun

At least 165 people have been killed, and hundreds more are missing after catastrophic floods swept through towns and valleys along the border between Nepal and China's Tibet region.

— Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2026
Natural Disasters Hundreds of people are dead, and at least 1,400 are missing, after a massive wall of water crashed through towns in Nepal and Tibet, an autonomous region of China.

— Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of towns

Noun

The homeowners, who launched the modern apothecary brand Malin+Goetz in 2004 out of a white-box Manhattan storefront, have settled into life as rural sophisticates.

— Laura Regensdorf, Architectural Digest, 5 Aug. 2026
Heartland churchgoers, urban sophisticates, football neophytes—everyone got swept up in his will to win.

— Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 8 Feb. 2026

Definition of sophisticates

Noun

As long as the overall drink remains sufficiently boozy, cocktails that contain citrus—such as margaritas, daiquiris, and cosmopolitans—can also work well or just require a few slight tweaks.

— Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 13 June 2026
Seedlip is ideal for non-alcoholic spritzes, palomas, cosmopolitans and similar classics.

— Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 27 May 2026

Definition of cosmopolitans

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City slickers will definitely get a bang for their buck with this place, which is a lot more spacious than a shoebox on the Upper East Side.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 17 Nov. 2025
During the Waleses' trip to Canada in October 1991, Diana made time between touring an AIDS hospice and a women's shelter to join William, 9, and Harry, 7, on a visit to Niagara Falls, where the trio donned rain slickers for a wet and wild voyage on the Maid of the Mist.

— Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025

Definition of slickers

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