different between urbanite vs rurbanite

English

Etymology 1

urban +? -ite (“resident of a particular area”)

Noun

urbanite (plural urbanites)

1. Someone who lives in a city or similar urban area.
2. One of a demographic class of young, socially-conscious, urban professionals.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

urbanite (plural urbanites)

1. Rock-like recycled building material from man-made sources.
   • 2002, Joseph F. Kennedy, The Art of Natural Building, ?ISBN, p. 107:

     In Eugene, Oregon, Rob Bolman received a building permit for a straw bale house with a foundation made of stacked urbanite with a cement-sand mortar and a poured concrete bond beam on top.

Translations

Anagrams

• braunite, burinate

English

Etymology

rurban +? -ite

Noun

rurbanite (plural rurbanites)

1. A person who lives in a rurban area; someone who lives in the country but works in the city.
   • 1950, Frank Atwood, "Rurbanites", The Hartford Courant, 5 March 1950:

     If you're a farmer in any Connecticut community the chances are that your next-door neighbor is a "rurbanite." He lives in the country. He may call his home a "farm," but he gets most of his income selling insurance, or working as a toolmaker in a brass factory, or teaching school or working on the road for the State Highway Department.

   • 1987, Flora Lewis, Europe: A Tapestry of Nations, Simon & Schuster (1987), ?ISBN, page 109:

     The average citizen is now a "rurbanite," owning a house on the outskirts of a city in an area where town and countryside have fused into TV-land.

   • 2009, Intermediate Natures: The Landscapes of Michel Desvigne, Birkhäuser (2009), ?ISBN, page 63:

     People who make the choice to live “in the country” are in fact totally cut off from it. These “rurbanites” usually have to take the car to reach the neighboring woods.