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Definition of City-born
1. Adjective. Being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person.
Lexicographical Neighbors of City-born
Literary usage of City-born
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century: A Study in Statistics by Adna Ferrin Weber (1899)
"(2) The city-born predominate in the lowest occupations and the lowest social
... (3) The city-born contribute an unduly large proportion to the class of ..."
2. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1898)
"The city-born population is, on the whole, not able to compete with the fresh
influx that flows in from the country. When the occupations and homes of the ..."
3. Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, at the by National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.). Session (1898)
"The city-born population is, on the whole, not able to compete with the fresh
influx that flows in from the country. When the occupations and homes of the ..."
4. The National Almanac and Annual Record (1864)
"D., an eminent theologian and Hebrew scholar of New York City, born in Newtown,
LI, about 1778, died at Newport, RI, July, 1863. ..."
5. Cyclopedic Review of Current History by Alfred Sidney Johnson, Clarence A. Bickford, William W. Hudson, Nathan Haskell Dole (1902)
"... City; born in Syracuse, NY; died by suicide while in the delirium of fever in
Naples, Italy, May 18, aged 43. Was graduated from Syracuse University, ..."
6. The Scotch-Irish in America: Proceedings and Addresses of the Scotch-Irish by Scotch-Irish Society of America (1891)
"MCMILLAN, SAMUEL, 247 Central Park, West New York City. Born at Dromore, County
Down, Ireland; Scotch-Irish and French-Huguenot parentage; ..."
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