Urbane

A suave and charming person. Kind and courteous.

The man was incredibly urbane and I enjoyed his company.

by Wassupninja December 23, 2015

urbane

refined, well-polished in speech or manner

Ted Kennedy is not exactly urbane.

by elvislives November 8, 2005

urbane

1)Urbane is a word descrbing sceney mac users/npr listeners. they drive smart cars or hybrids and drink black coffee while reading soren kirkegaard and other obscure philosphers at starbucks. if not black coffee, green tea or septuple shot espresso! gotta get through all of those poetry slams somehow! are poets, artists, designers, or actors like moby. they live in williamsburg (brooklyn) or upper west side in a studio/loft, but can live anywhere. self-procalimed "urban Sophisticates". very pretentious, but REALLLLLY fun to talk about/act like! they also have obscure names, like gustav or charlton or manet.
2) Can mean really polished and sophisticated in a broad sense of the word.

1)Katharine- Look at them, over there, reading the arts section of the Sunday Times, listening to NPR podcasts, sipping their tazo. geez, if they had any bigger heads, they's knock over their new macbook airs!
Amanda- haha. I bet they live in williamsburg or something. well, at least they can chat about the advantages of sophocles versus plato in their little smart cars.
Katharine- But people like that don't chat. They have intelligent forums of conversation.
Amanda- Oh they're so URBANE!
2)Claude- Oh, those brooklyn artists! So creative! They're extremely urbane!

by foran May 23, 2008

Urbane

The use of bane urbane dictionary terms!

College Student: "Let me give you the ear plug you fucking bitch."
Girlfriend: "No, give me the rusty trombone, rim me and trim me!"
Roommate: "God, you guys are urbane."

by G.M.H. December 2, 2009

urbane

A smarmy fucker; Elitist, snobby, dick-for-brains

The gentleman with the tophat and shit-eating grin was quite the urbane butthole.

by Moon Midget May 8, 2003

urbane

You try to type “urband” so it automatically goes to “urbandictionary.com” but you type “e” and not “d” so it instead takes you to the definition of urbane.

*types urbane and not urband*

“Ugh, if google autocorrects yoiwiwiruwbw to youtube then why can’t it autocorrect urbane to urband”

“Because it’s a dictionary wo-”

“Shut up”

by AnOrganism March 10, 2021

urbane dictionary

If it existed, it some would say it to be the exact opposite of Urban Dictionary. In reality, Urban Dictionary is just a subset of a truly Urbane Dictionary, ideally conceived.

One would perhaps not expect to find offensive slang, misspellings or incorrect grammar in the Urbane Dictionary. Urban Dictionary however? Par for the course, old boy. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is quite urbane, though congnizant of urban slang. A good, truly urbane dictionary, however, would not seek to be prescriptive, it would faithfully report usage, both vulgar and sublime, without overt judgement or censorship. Thus, the OED and Urban Dictionary truly need each other, in the grand scheme of things.

by JJR1971 February 5, 2007