Urbane definition

Urbane

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WordNet

(1) Showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

"His polished manner"

"Maintained an urbane tone in his letters"

WiktionaryText

Existing since the sixteenth century in the sense of “appropriate to a city”: from urbain or from urbanus (from urbs, “city”).

Courteous, polite, refined, and suave.
- 1949: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, p12
  
  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.