English

Adjective

urbane ‎(comparative more urbane, superlative most urbane)

1. (of a man) Courteous, polite, refined, and suave.
   • 1949: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p12

     He felt deeply drawn to him, and not solely because he was intrigued by the contrast between O’Brien’s urbane manner and his prize-fighter’s physique.

Antonyms

• rustic

Related terms

• urban

Translations

References

• The Concise Oxford English Dictionary [Eleventh Edition]

German

Adjective

urbane

1. inflected form of urban

Italian

Adjective

urbane

1. Feminine plural form of urbano

Latin

Noun

urbāne

1. vocative singular of urbānus

References

• urbane in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• urbane in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

urbane

1. definite singular of urban
2. plural of urban

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

urbane

1. definite singular of urban
2. plural of urban