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Spell Bee Word: Urban


What does urban mean?

Word: Urban

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Urban means to do with a town or city.

How do you spell urban?

Syllables: ur - ban

Tricky part: The opening sound is the one in her and bird, so students write erban or irban. This word starts with ur.

Watch out for: erban, irban

Memory tip: Urban starts like the word urge: picture a city full of people with an urge to rush about.

Urban in a sentence

Example 1: Urban areas such as London have heavy traffic at rush hour.

Example 2: Our project compared urban gardens on rooftops with farms in villages.

Example 3: Many urban families live in flats rather than houses.

Fun Fact

The United Nations reports that more than half the world's people now live in urban areas, a share that passed 50 per cent around 2007.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

urban

a) rural
b) metropolitan
c) civic
d) municipal

Show answer

a) rural. Rural means of the countryside; civic, metropolitan and municipal are all to do with towns and cities.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Many families have moved from villages to urbun areas in search of work.

a) villages
b) families
c) urbun
d) search

Show answer

c) urbun. The second part is spelt like the ban in banana.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

urbann

a) u
b) b
c) a
d) n

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d) n. The word finishes with the same two letters as tan, and only one n.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) metropolis
b) township
c) urban
d) suberb

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d) suberb. Suburb has a u in both of its parts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these is most often found in an urban area?

a) a quiet forest trail
b) a metro station
c) a herd of grazing goats
d) a wide paddy field

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b) a metro station

2. An urban planner works on which of these?

a) roads and parks for a growing city
b) seeds for a new rice crop
c) nests for birds in a jungle
d) paths for a desert caravan

Show answer

a) roads and parks for a growing city

Associated Words

More Class 6 Summer Spell Bee words starting with u: ultraviolet, unbending, upkeep, undergraduate, unsuccessful, upholsterer

More words from this list

aggravation, bursary, crackle, engrave, harmony, majority, pharmacist, shuttle

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