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urbane

2 synonyms and 4 antonyms for urbane, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.

Adj — Describing a person, usually a man, who is well-mannered, courteous and smoothly charming.

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A variant of urban plus -ane (a variant of -an, the suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ that forms adjectives). Urban itself is borrowed from Middle French urbain (“belonging to a city, urban; courteous, refined, urbane”; modern French urbain), or from its source, Latin urbānus (“of or belonging to a city, urban; of m...

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