Definition of "city-born" []

• Being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "But they were too careful, too quiet for a city-born random."
• "Adolphus Cherrill, tilling his portion of prairie land with scant enthusiasm he was a city-born man, retained Carthage as his goal, offering a chance to move up in the world."
• "OBAMA: If three civil rights workers in Mississippi -- black, white, Christian and Jew, city-born and country-bred -- could lay down their lives in freedom's cause, I know we can come together to face down the challenges of our own time."