urbane

a. 彬彬有礼的

发音

UK /ɜːˈbeɪn/
US /ɜɹˈbeɪn/

词形变化

urbaner 比较级 urbaner urbanest more urbane 比较级 urbanest 最高级 most urbane 最高级

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Of a person (usually a man): having refined manners; courteous, polite, suave.

    彬彬有礼的

  2. 2.

    Of an act, expression, etc.: suited to a person of refined manners; elegant, sophisticated.

  3. 3.

    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”).

    废旧

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 2

refined polished

近义相关 1

sophisticated

词源

A variant of urban + -ane (a variant of -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives)). Urban is borrowed from Middle French urbain (“belonging to a city, urban; courteous, refined, urbane”) (modern French urbain), or from its etymon Latin urbānus (“of or belonging to a city, urban; of manners or style: like those of city dwellers: cultivated, polished, refined, sophisticated”), from urbs (“city; walled town; Rome”) (further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to encircle, enclose; a belt; an enclosure, fence”) or *werbʰ- (“to enclose”)) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Compare typologically civil, courteous.

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