different between urban vs urbane

English

Etymology

From Middle French urbain, from Latin urbanus, from urbs (“city”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???b?n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)b?n
• (US) IPA^(key): /??b?n/
• Hyphenation: ur?ban

Adjective

urban (comparative more urban, superlative most urban)

1. Related to the (or any) city.
2. Characteristic of city life.
3. (US, proscribed, outdated) Relating to contemporary African American culture, especially in music.
4. (US, Britain, euphemistic, offensive) (of inhabitants or residents) Black; African American.

Usage notes

• The word "urban" in a musical context came to be controversial and it was described as perpetuating and reinforcing the racial stereotyping of black communities, especially black musicians, and as a "catchall for music created by Black artists, regardless of genre", leading to the music industry's replacement of it with more appropriate terms.
• "Urban" as a descriptor of black inhabitants or residents is an offensive and stereotypical usage; see Dictionary.com's "Historical usage of urban" for the explanation.

Antonyms

• nonurban
• rural
• bucolic

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Urbanus

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• urban at OneLook Dictionary Search
• urban in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• urban in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Braun, Buran, Rabun, aburn, unabr., unbar

Esperanto

Adjective

urban

1. accusative singular of urba

German

Etymology

From Latin urbanus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ba?n/, [????ba?n]
• Rhymes: -a?n

Adjective

urban (comparative urbaner, superlative am urbansten)

1. urban

Declension

Synonyms

• städtisch

Further reading

• “urban” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin urbanus

Adjective

urban (neuter singular urbant, definite singular and plural urbane)

1. urban
2. urbane

References

• “urban” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin urbanus

Adjective

urban (neuter singular urbant, definite singular and plural urbane)

1. urban
2. urbane

References

• “urban” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• ürban

Etymology

From Latin urb?nus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /yr?ba?/

Adjective

urban

1. urban

Romanian

Etymology

From French urbain, from Latin urbanus.

Adjective

urban m or n (feminine singular urban?, masculine plural urbani, feminine and neuter plural urbane)

1. urbane

Declension

Related terms

• urbanitate

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ûrba?n/
• Hyphenation: ur?ban

Adjective

?rb?n (definite ?rb?n?, Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. urban

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin urb?nus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /urbá?n/

Adjective

urb?n (not comparable)

1. urban

Inflection

Synonyms

• mésten

Further reading

• “urban”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

English

Etymology

From Middle French urbain (“urban, belonging to a city; also: polite, courteous, elegant, urbane”), from Latin urb?nus (“belonging to a city”), with a sense of “having the manners of townspeople” in Classical Latin, from urbs (“city”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???be?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??be?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Adjective

urbane (comparative more urbane, superlative most urbane)

1. (of a man) Courteous, polite, refined, and suave.
   • 1949: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p12
   • 2017 September 27, David Browne, "Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91," Rolling Stone

     And with his trademark smoking jackets and pipes – and the silk pajamas he would often wear to work – Hefner became the embodiment of a sexually adventurous yet urbane image and lifestyle, a seeming role model for generations of men.

     He felt deeply drawn to him, and not solely because he was intrigued by the contrast between O’Brien’s urbane manner and his prize-fighter’s physique.

   Antonym: rustic

Related terms

• urban

Translations

References

• The Concise Oxford English Dictionary [Eleventh Edition]

Anagrams

• unbare, unbear

German

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

1. feminine plural of urbano

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ur?ba?.ne/, [?r?bä?n?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ur?ba.ne/, [ur?b??n?]

Noun

urb?ne

1. vocative singular of urb?nus

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ur?ba?.ne?/, [?r?bä?ne?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ur?ba.ne/, [ur?b??n?]

Adverb

urb?n? (comparative urb?nius, superlative urb?nissim?)

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