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6-letter words (3 found)

UNBARE,UNBEAR,URBANE,

5-letter words (6 found)

ABUNE,BRANE,BURAN,UNBAR,URBAN,URENA,

4-letter words (25 found)

ABER,AUNE,BANE,BARE,BARN,BAUR,BEAN,BEAR,BEAU,BRAE,BRAN,BREN,BUNA,BURA,BURN,EARN,NABE,NARE,NEAR,RAUN,REAN,RUBE,RUNE,UNBE,UREA,

3-letter words (31 found)

ANE,ARB,ARE,AUE,BAE,BAN,BAR,BEN,BRA,BRU,BUN,BUR,EAN,EAR,EAU,ERA,ERN,NAB,NAE,NEB,NUB,NUR,RAN,REB,REN,RUB,RUE,RUN,URB,URE,URN,

2-letter words (15 found)

AB,AE,AN,AR,BA,BE,EA,EN,ER,NA,NE,NU,RE,UN,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 81 words from urbane according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of urbane

urbane

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɜːˈbeɪn/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɜɹˈbeɪn/
  • Rhymes: -eɪn
  • Hyphenation: urb‧ane

Adjective

urbane (comparative urbaner or more urbane, superlative urbanest or most urbane)

  1. Of a person (usually a man): having refined manners; courteous, polite, suave.
    Synonym: debonair
    Antonyms: rustic, unurbane
  2. Of an act, expression, etc.: suited to a person of refined manners; elegant, sophisticated.
    Antonym: unurbane
  3. 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”)

Derived terms

  • unurbane
  • urbanely
  • urbaneness

Related terms

  • urban

Translations

References

Further reading

  • urbanity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • urbane (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “urbane”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “urbane”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “urbane”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  • “urbane”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  • “urbane” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
  • “urbane”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • unbare, unbear

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

urbane

  1. inflection of urban:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

urbane f pl

  1. feminine plural of urbano

Anagrams

  • eburna

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /urˈbaː.ne/, [ʊrˈbäːnɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /urˈba.ne/, [urˈbäːne]

Noun

urbāne

  1. vocative singular of urbānus

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /urˈbaː.neː/, [ʊrˈbäːneː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /urˈba.ne/, [urˈbäːne]

Adverb

urbānē (comparative urbānius, superlative urbānissimē)

  1. urbanely

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 and plural of urban

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

urbane

  1. definite singular and plural of urban

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