different between urbane vs conurbation

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

English

Etymology

From Latin con- (“together”) + urbs (“city”) + -ation. Coined by Scottish biologist, sociologist, and geographer Patrick Geddes in 1915.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?n??be???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?n??be???n/

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

conurbation (plural conurbations)

1. A continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl.

Usage notes

A Dictionary of Geography distinguishes between uninuclear conurbations (conurbations which have developed around one urban area) and polynuclear conurbations (conurbations which have developed from the aggregation of several urban areas).

Related terms

Translations

References

• 2005, Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised), Oxford University Press, ?ISBN
• 2005, John Scott and Gordon Marshall, A Dictionary of Sociology, Oxford University Press, ?ISBN
• 2004, Susan Mayhew, A Dictionary of Geography, Oxford University Press, ?ISBN