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"ref": "1897 March, Maria Weed, “Disillusioned”, in The Midland Monthly, volume VII, number 3, Des Moines, Iowa: Johnson Brigham, →OCLC, chapter II (continued), page 245, column 2",
"text": "However, there was nothing for it but to welcome her with all the heartiness I could summon. The sepulchral atmosphere of the parlor had chilled and dampened the spirits of this usually urbane woman, while disappointment and disgust were written in every line of that strong face.",
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"ref": "1976, National Geographic, volume 149, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 106",
"text": "Our people must have some control over our destiny,\" reasons Wilma Muth, an urbane woman who serves as Inyo County supervisor.",
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"ref": "1992, Thomas DiPiero, “Mastery and Seduction in Eighteenth-century Fiction”, in Dangerous Truths and Criminal Passions: The Evolution of the French Novel, 1569–1791, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, part 2 (The Development of the Modern Novel), page 237",
"text": "Mme de Chartres' advice to her daughter consisted only of prohibitions from which we might infer that the virtuous urbane woman was both inactive and invisible, obviously not a particularly suitable subject for the elaboration of engaging tales.",
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"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "彬彬有禮的"
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"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
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"word": "hienostunut"
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"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "urbain"
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"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "weltgewandt"
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"roman": "asteîos",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "ἀστεῖος"
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"word": "urbānus"
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"roman": "ljúbezen",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "љу́безен"
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"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
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"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "heeflich"
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"roman": "obxodítelʹnyj",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "обходи́тельный"
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"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "учти́вый"
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"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "ве́жливый"
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"word": "artig"
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"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "belevad"
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"ref": "2017 September 27, David Browne, “Hugh Hefner, ‘Playboy’ Founder, Dead at 91”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-04",
"text": "And with his trademark smoking jackets and pipes – and the silk pajamas he would often wear to work – [Hugh] Hefner became the embodiment of a sexually adventurous yet urbane image and lifestyle, a seeming role model for generations of men.",
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"etymology_text": "A variant of urban + -ane (a variant of -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives)). Urban is borrowed from Middle French urbain (“belonging to a city, urban; courteous, refined, urbane”) (modern French urbain), or from its etymon Latin urbānus (“of or belonging to a city, urban; of manners or style: like those of city dwellers: cultivated, polished, refined, sophisticated”), from urbs (“city; walled town; Rome”) (further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to encircle, enclose; a belt; an enclosure, fence”) or *werbʰ- (“to enclose”)) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "urbaner",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "more urbane",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "urbanest",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
},
{
"form": "most urbane",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "er",
"2": "more"
},
"expansion": "urbane (comparative urbaner or more urbane, superlative urbanest or most urbane)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"urb‧ane"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "urban"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "rustic"
},
{
"word": "unurbane"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1897 March, Maria Weed, “Disillusioned”, in The Midland Monthly, volume VII, number 3, Des Moines, Iowa: Johnson Brigham, →OCLC, chapter II (continued), page 245, column 2",
"text": "However, there was nothing for it but to welcome her with all the heartiness I could summon. The sepulchral atmosphere of the parlor had chilled and dampened the spirits of this usually urbane woman, while disappointment and disgust were written in every line of that strong face.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1976, National Geographic, volume 149, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 106",
"text": "Our people must have some control over our destiny,\" reasons Wilma Muth, an urbane woman who serves as Inyo County supervisor.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1992, Thomas DiPiero, “Mastery and Seduction in Eighteenth-century Fiction”, in Dangerous Truths and Criminal Passions: The Evolution of the French Novel, 1569–1791, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, part 2 (The Development of the Modern Novel), page 237",
"text": "Mme de Chartres' advice to her daughter consisted only of prohibitions from which we might infer that the virtuous urbane woman was both inactive and invisible, obviously not a particularly suitable subject for the elaboration of engaging tales.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of a person (usually a man): having refined manners; courteous, polite, suave."
],
"links": [
[
"person",
"person#Noun"
],
[
"man",
"man#Noun"
],
[
"having",
"have#Verb"
],
[
"refined",
"refined#Adjective"
],
[
"manners",
"manner#Noun"
],
[
"courteous",
"courteous"
],
[
"polite",
"polite#Adjective"
],
[
"suave",
"suave#Adjective"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "debonair"
}
]
},
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "unurbane"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2017 September 27, David Browne, “Hugh Hefner, ‘Playboy’ Founder, Dead at 91”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-04",
"text": "And with his trademark smoking jackets and pipes – and the silk pajamas he would often wear to work – [Hugh] Hefner became the embodiment of a sexually adventurous yet urbane image and lifestyle, a seeming role model for generations of men.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of an act, expression, etc.: suited to a person of refined manners; elegant, sophisticated."
],
"links": [
[
"act",
"act#Noun"
],
[
"expression",
"expression"
],
[
"suited",
"suit#Verb"
],
[
"elegant",
"elegant"
],
[
"sophisticated",
"sophisticated#Adjective"
]
]
},
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a city or town, or life in such a place; living in a city or town; having authority or jurisdiction over a city or town",
"word": "urban"
}
],
"categories": [
"English obsolete forms"
],
"glosses": [
"Obsolete spelling of urban (“of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a city or town, or life in such a place; living in a city or town; having authority or jurisdiction over a city or town”)"
],
"links": [
[
"urban",
"urban#English"
],
[
"characteristic",
"characteristic#Adjective"
],
[
"city",
"city"
],
[
"town",
"town"
],
[
"life",
"life#Noun"
],
[
"place",
"place#Noun"
],
[
"living",
"live#Verb"
],
[
"authority",
"authority"
],
[
"jurisdiction",
"jurisdiction"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ɜːˈbeɪn/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ɜɹˈbeɪn/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪn"
},
{
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/35/En-us-urbane.ogg/En-us-urbane.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/En-us-urbane.ogg",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
"text": "Audio (GA)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "iziskan",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "изискан"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "iztǎnčen",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "изтънчен"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vežliv",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "вежлив"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "彬彬有禮的"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "bīnbīnyǒulǐde",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "彬彬有礼的"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "jemný"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "uhlazený"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zdvořilý"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "hienostunut"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "urbain"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "weltgewandt"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "weltmännisch"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kósmios",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "κόσμιος"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "asteîos",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "ἀστεῖος"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "urbānus"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ljúbezen",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "љу́безен"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "sŕdečen",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "ср́дечен"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "účtiv",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "у́чтив"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ótmen",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "о́тмен"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "heeflich"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obxodítelʹnyj",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "обходи́тельный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "učtívyj",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "учти́вый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "véžlivyj",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "ве́жливый"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gradski"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "urbani"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "urbano"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "cortés"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "urban"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "artig"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "belevad"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave",
"word": "världsvan"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of an act, expression, etc.: suited to a person of refined manners — see also elegant, sophisticated",
"word": "hienostunut"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "préfinet",
"sense": "of an act, expression, etc.: suited to a person of refined manners — see also elegant, sophisticated",
"word": "пре́финет"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "of an act, expression, etc.: suited to a person of refined manners — see also elegant, sophisticated",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "urbani"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "of an act, expression, etc.: suited to a person of refined manners — see also elegant, sophisticated",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gradski"
}
],
"word": "urbane"
}
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