city dwellers
People in towns
City dwellers are people who live in cities rather than towns, suburbs, or rural areas.
The term emphasizes urban residence as a defining characteristic: City dwellers often rely on public transportation.
It appears in discussions contrasting urban and rural lifestyles, demographics, or attitudes.
- urbanitesMetropolitan area residents
- citizensMembers of a nation
- residentsPeople living somewhere
- street vendorsOutdoor merchants on sidewalks
- corner storesSmall neighborhood retail outlets
street corners · inhabitants · locals · denizens · concrete jungle · metropolis · community · renter · late nights · public transport · population · bustle · crowds · demographics · sidewalks · strangers · walking distance · traffic
- peoplesAmericans, British, Chinese, French, Germans
- residentsresident, residents, inhabitants, inhabitant, local
- city peopleurbanites, residents, citizens, locals, neighbors
- New YorkersManhattanites, Brooklynites, subway riders, subway rider, straphanger
- Chinese peoplesHan Chinese, Manchu, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Mongols
- citiesParis, London, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles
city dwellersrural folk
Non-urban population
villagers · rustics · farmers · suburbanites · peasants
city dwellershomesteaders
Land-claiming rural settlers
ranchers · woodsmen · frontiersmen · forest dwellers · pastoralists
city, citizen, dwell, dwelling, civilian, citizenship, townspeople, dwellers, municipality