Usually means: Sophisticated, polished in manner, worldly.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. urbane: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. urbane: Merriam-Webster
  3. urbane: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. urbane: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. urbane: Collins English Dictionary
  6. urbane: Vocabulary.com
  7. Urbane, urbane: Wordnik
  8. urbane: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. urbane: Wiktionary
  10. urbane: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. urbane: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. urbane: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. urbane: Dictionary.com
  14. urbane: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. urbane: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Urbane: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. urbane: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. urbane: Rhymezone
  19. urbane: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. urbane: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. urbane: FreeDictionary.org
  22. urbane: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. urbane: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. urbane: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. URBANE: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urbane: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. urbane: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See urbanely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Of a person (usually a man): having refined manners; courteous, polite, suave.
adjective:  Of an act, expression, etc.: suited to a person of refined manners; elegant, sophisticated.
adjective:  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”). [Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or happening or located in, a city or town; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of life in such a place, especially when contrasted with the countryside.]

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