Urbane

Definition: Urbane

Urbane

Adjective

1. Showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters".

2. Characterized by tact and propriety.

3. Marked by wide-ranging knowledge and appreciation of many parts of the world arising from urban life and wide travel; "the sophisticated manners of a true cosmopolite"; "urbane and pliant...he was at ease even in the drawing rooms of Paris".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Urbane" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "courteous".

Date "urbane" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Note: Urbane \Ur*bane"\, adjective. [See Urban.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Urbane

Courtesy

Adjective: courteous, polite, civil, mannerly, urbane; well-behaved, well-mannered, well-bred, well-brought up; good-mannered, polished, civilized, cultivated; refined; (taste); gentlemanlike; (fashion); gallant; on one's good behavior.

Crosswords: Urbane

Books

• Gerd Winner : Berlin, London, New York : urbane Strukturen (reference)

• Harrison Gray Otis the Urbane (reference)

• The friendly town; a little book for the urbane (reference)

• Urban language conflict = Urbane Sprachkonflikte (reference)

• Urbane and His Friends (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• New Jazz Sounds: The Urbane Sessions (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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He had a quiet toneless voice and urbane manners and on a finger of his plump clean hand he displayed at moments a signet ring.

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Economic History

Belgium

Its capital, Brussels, is an urbane city and home to the headquarters of the European Union and NATO, as well as hundreds of international institutions, associations and multinational corporations. (references)

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Albanian

i qytetëruar (civilized), i njerëzishëm (bland, courteous, human, humane, polite). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهذب (civil, civilized, corrected, courteous, cultivated, cultured, discipliner, educated, educator, fair-spoken, gentleman, mannerly, polished, polite, preceptor, purified, rectified, refined, respectable, teacher, well bred, well mannered), ‏مؤدب (educated, gallant, gentleman, kind, kindly, mannerly, polite, preceptor), ‏لطيف (affable, agreeable, amiable, benign, bland, charming, civil, civilized, complaisance, complaisant, courteous, courtly, decent, delicate, fair, fair-spoken, fine, friendly, genial, gentle, good natured, gracious, handsome, kind, kindly, light, mild, nice, pet, pleasant, polite, poppet, pretty, refreshing, smooth, soft, suave, sweet, tender, tenuous, thin), ‏لبق (adroit, clever, diplomatic, refined, skilful, skillful, smart, suave, tactful), ‏ساكن المدينة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

учтив (attentive, civil, courteous, fair-spoken, forthcoming, mannerly, polite, suave, well mannered), вежлив (affable, polite, thoughtful), любезен (accommodating, affable, agreeable, amiable, bland, complaisant, courteous, debonair, fair, fair-spoken, friendly, gentle, gracious, kind, mellow, nice, obliging, pleasant, polite, smooth, smooth spoken, smooth tongued, smooth-faced, soft spoken, well spoken), изтънчен (cool, dainty, delicate, discriminating, fastidious, fine, polished, polite, refined, subtle), изискан (accomplished, classic, discerning, distinguished, elegant, exact, exquisite, gracious, neat, nice, polished, polite, precise, recherche, refined, tasteful, well-rounded). (various references)

Chinese 

文雅, 彬彬有禮 (refined and courteous). (various references)

Czech

uhlazený (courtly, genteel, graceful, mannerly, polite, refined, sleek, slick), svìtácký (worldly-minded). (various references)

Farsi 

مقرون به ادب , مودبانه (Courteous), مودب (Courteous, Courtly, Debonair, Decorous, Housebroken, Mannerly, Nice, Respectful, Suave, Unselfish), خلیق . (various references)

French

urbain (urban). (various references)

German

urban (urbanely), weltmännisch (gentlemanly, gently, sophisticated, urbanely), verbindlich (allying, binding, bland, combinable, compulsory, engaging, obligatory, obliging, reliable, urbanely), höflich (bland, blandly, civil, civilly, complimentarily, complimentary, cordial, cordially, courteous, debonair, fairspoken, polite, politely, unrude, urbanely, well-mannered), gewandt (able, adroit, adroitly, agile, alert, brisk, clever, deft, deftly, dexterous, dexterously, fluently, glib, glibly, handily, keen, neat, neatly, nimble, proficient, ready, skilful, skilled, skillful, skillfully, urbanely, versa, versus, voluble, volubly). (various references)

Greek 

ευγενικόσ (amiable, civil, complaisant, considerate, courteous, courtly, genteel, gracious, kind, mannerly, polite), ευγενήσ (civil, courteous, courtly, debonair, gallant, genteel, gentle, gentlemanly, gracious, kindly, ladylike, nobble, nobleman, patrician, polite, soulful, thoroughbred, well mannered). (various references)

Hungarian

udvarias (affable, bland, civil, civil-spoken, complacent, complaisant, courteous, courtly, fair-spoken, mannerly, neighborly, neighbourly, obliging, polite, to be gracious to sy, to wrap up his censure in a polite formula, well-mannered). (various references)

Indonesian

sopan (decent, genteel, gentlemanly, polite), beradab (civilized, cultured, polite). (various references)

Italian

cortese (accommodating, affable, bland, complaisant, courteous, friendly, good-natured, gracious, kind, mannerly, neighborly, neighbourly, obliging, polite, respectful, well-mannered), civile (civil, civilian, non-military). (various references)

Pig Latin

aneurbay

Portuguese

urbano (civic, urban), polido (attentive, cleanly cut, courtly, gentle, glossy, mannerly, neat, net, polished, polite, precise, shiny, sleek, sleeky, smooth, specular, well-bred, well-spoken), educado (educated, good, graceful, literate, mannerly, polite, well-educated, well-mannered), delicado (airy, attentive, chivalrous, civil, complaisant, considerate, courteous, courtly, dainty, delicate, exquisite, fastidious, fine, flossy, fragile, frail, gaunt, gentle, gingerly, kid-glove, kittle, lean, mannerly, neighborly, neighbourly, nice, out-and-out, pernickety, polite, refined, scabrous, sensitive, sensory, sleazy, slender, slight, sophisticated, tactful, tender, thin, ticklish, well-made), cortês (chivalrous, civil, complimentary, courteous, debonair, mannerly, neighborly, neighbourly, parliamentary, polite, respectful, soft, suave, well-bred). (various references)

Russian 

вежливый (affable, attentive, bland, courteous, courtly, fair-spoken, mannerly, parliamentary, polite, respectful). (various references)

Scottish

suairc (affable, civil, gentle, kind). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

učtiv (affable, bland, civilized, courteous, polite, respectful, well mannered, well spoken, well-behaved), otmen (dignified, fashionable, gallant, genteel, nobby, noble, refined). (various references)

Spanish

urbano (city, town, urban), valiente (a devil of a fellow, bold, brave, courageous, die hard, efficient, gallant, game, industrious, manful, manly, nice, stout hearted, valiant), de ciudad (city, town), cortés (attentive, civil, complaisant, courteous, courtly, debonair, gallant, genteel, gracious, mannerly, polite, suave, well bred, well mannered, well-mannered), bravo (brave, bravo, courageous, courteous, Dauntless, doughtily, fine, good for you, lion-hearted, rough, spirited, valiant, vicious, well done, wild). (various references)

Swedish

belevad (debonair, polite, well bred, well-bred). (various references)

Turkish

nazik (affable, attentive, brittle, civil, civilized, civil-spoken, complaisant, considerate, courteous, dainty, debonair, debonaire, decent, delicate, distingue, Douce, eggshell, exquisite, fair, genteel, gentle, gracious, kid glove, kind, mannerly, mild, obliging, parliamentary, polished, polite, suave, sweet-natured, tender, ticklish, tickly, touchy, trickish, tricky, well disposed), medeni (civil, civilized), kibar (aristocratic, aristocratical, attentive, blancmange, bland, chivalrous, civil, civilized, courteous, courtly, distingue, Douce, elegant, exquisite, fashionable, gallant, genteel, gentle, kid glove, mild, nice, parliamentary, polished, polite, refined, sharp, well born, well disposed, well mannered), ince (attenuate, attic, brittle, civilized, courteous, dainty, delicate, fine, fragile, graceful, gracile, gracious, keen, lean, nice, polite, precision, refined, scarious, sharp, slender, slim, subtile, subtle, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy, tenuous, thin, trickish, tricksy, tricky, vaporous). (various references)

Ukrainian

ввічливий (affable, bland, civil, complaisant, conventional, courteous, courtly, debonair, diplomatic, discreet, mannerly, polite, respectful, suave). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tao nh, lịch sự (affable, chic, civil-spoken, courteous, courtly, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, well-mannered). (various references)

urbanum, urbanus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "urbane": urbanely, urbaner, urbanest. (additional references)

Words ending with "urbane": inurbane. (additional references)

Words containing "urbane": turbaned. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Urbane" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arbonne, Erbani, erbine, Jurabek, Orcbane, ouabain, Qurban, ruban, ruband, rubarn, Rubine, uban, Udbina, unbane, uran, urany, urbain, urbaine, urbance, Urbina, urcan, uruban. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: unbear.

-1 letter: buran, unbar, urban.

-2 letters: bane, bare, barn, bean, bear, beau, brae, bran, bren, bura, burn, earn, nabe, near, rube, rune, unbe, urea.

-3 letters: ane, arb, are, ban, bar, ben, bra, bun, bur, ear, eau, era, ern, nab, nae, neb, nub, ran, reb, rub, rue, run, urb, urn.

-4 letters: ab, ae, an, ar, ba, be.

+1 letter: exurban, nebular, unbears, unbrace, unbrake, urbaner.

+2 letters: arbutean, braunite, breadnut, burnable, inurbane, penumbra, prunable, ruinable, turbaned, turnable, unbarbed, unbarred, unbeared, unbraced, unbraces, unbraked, unbrakes, urbanely, urbanest, urbanise, urbanite, urbanize.

+3 letters: aubergine, banqueter, braunites, breadnuts, buccaneer, burnables, carbuncle, endurable, endurably, exuberant, heartburn, husbander, incurable, insurable, lumberman, numerable, penumbrae, penumbral, penumbras, subaltern, subgenera, submarine, sunbather, superbank, tenurable, tribunate, turbanned, turbinate, turntable, unabraded, unbearing, unbraided, unbranded, unridable, unstabler, upbearing, urbanised, urbanises, urbanites, urbanized, urbanizes.