Found 4 hits - Term: urbane, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
urbane \urbane"\, a. see urban.
courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.
1913 webster
see also:
urban
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
polished refined svelte sophisticated
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
- [4] : Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's)
urbane, courteous
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