urbane

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɜːˈbeɪn/
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• General-American: /ˈɝˈbeɪn/
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• rhymes with -eɪn
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• CMU ARPABET: ER0 B EY1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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). Compare typologically civil, courteous.

34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: изискан (iziskan) — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Bulgarian: изтънчен (iztǎnčen) — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Bulgarian: вежлив (vežliv) — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Chinese Mandarin: 彬彬有禮的 /彬彬有礼的 (bīnbīnyǒulǐde) — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Czech: jemný — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Czech: uhlazený — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Czech: zdvořilý — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Finnish: hienostunut — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• French: urbain — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• German: weltgewandt — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• German: weltmännisch — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Greek: κόσμιος (kósmios) — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Ancient Greek: ἀστεῖος (asteîos) — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Latin: urbānus — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Macedonian: љу́безен (ljúbezen) — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Macedonian: ср́дечен (sŕdečen) — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Macedonian: у́чтив (účtiv) — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Macedonian: о́тмен (ótmen) — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Plautdietsch: heeflich — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Russian: обходи́тельный (obxodítelʹnyj) — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Russian: учти́вый (učtívyj) — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Russian: ве́жливый (véžlivyj) — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Serbo-Croatian: gradski — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Serbo-Croatian: urbani — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Spanish: urbano — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Spanish: cortés — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Swedish: urban — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Swedish: artig — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Swedish: belevad — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Swedish: världsvan — of a person (usually a man): having refined manners — see also courteous, polite, suave
• Finnish: hienostunut — of an act, expression, etc.: suited to a person of refined manners — see also elegant, sophisticated
• Macedonian: пре́финет (préfinet) — of an act, expression, etc.: suited to a person of refined manners — see also elegant, sophisticated
• Serbo-Croatian: urbani — of an act, expression, etc.: suited to a person of refined manners — see also elegant, sophisticated
• Serbo-Croatian: gradski — of an act, expression, etc.: suited to a person of refined manners — see also elegant, sophisticated