Urbane

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Urbane \Ur*bane"\, a. [See {Urban}.]
     Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  urbane
       adj 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"
              [syn: {polished}, {refined}, {svelte}]
       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" [syn: {sophisticated}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "urbane":
     accommodating, affable, agreeable, amiable, appropriate, attentive,
     balanced, becoming, bland, civil, civilized, clubbable, clubbish,
     clubby, communicative, companionable, companionate, compatible,
     complaisant, congenial, considerate, courteous, decent, decorous,
     deferential, fair, felicitous, fit for society, fitting,
     fond of society, friendly, genial, genteel, graceful, gracious,
     gregarious, happy, hospitable, meet, metropolitan, obliging,
     poised, polite, proper, respectful, right, seemly, smooth,
     sociable, social, social-minded, solicitous, suitable, tactful,
     thoughtful
  
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Urbane, courteous