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Counterurbanization is the process by which people migrate from urban to rural communities, the opposite of urbanization. People have moved from urban to rural communities for various reasons, including job opportunities and simpler lifestyles. In recent years, due to technology, the urbanization process has been occurring in reverse.
Anti-urbanism is hostility toward the city as opposed to the country. [1] It may may take the form a simple rejection of city life, or an urbicidal wish to destroy the city. [2] [3] Like other hostile attitudes, it may be an individual sentiment or a collective trope, sometimes evoked by the expression "urbophobia" [4] or "urbanophobia" [5] This trope can become politicized and thus influence ...
The antonym "hypogamy" [a] refers to the inverse: marrying a person of lower social class or status (colloquially "marrying down"). Both terms were invented in the Indian subcontinent in the 19th century while translating classical Hindu law books, which used the Sanskrit terms anuloma and pratiloma, respectively, for the two concepts. [2]
The slang term "Chad" originated in the UK during World War II and was employed in a similar humorous manner as Kilroy was here. [1] It later came into use in Chicago [2] as a derogatory way to describe a young, wealthy man from the city's northern suburbs, typically single and in his twenties or early thirties. [2]
The latest issue of Hello! magazine describes Melania Trump as someone who has "grown in confidence" and now has "newfound authority" during her second stint in the White House as first lady.
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.
Keith Urban was doing some wishful thinking when he wrote his romantic chart-topper “Somebody Like You” — much to the chagrin of his then-girlfriend.. Urban, 57, said in a Jan. 20 interview ...