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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Urbane \Ur*bane"\, adjective [See {Urban}.] Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
urbane
adjective
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" [syn: {polished}, {refined}, {svelte}]
2: characterized by tact and propriety
3: marked by wide-ranging knowledge and appreciation of many parts of the world arising from urban life and wide travel; "the sophisticated manners of a true cosmopolite"; "urbane and pliant...he was at ease even in the drawing rooms of Paris" [syn: {sophisticated}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "urbane": accommodating, affable, agreeable, amiable, appropriate, attentive, balanced, becoming, bland, civil, civilized, clubbable, clubbish, clubby, communicative, companionable, companionate, compatible, complaisant, congenial, considerate, courteous, decent, decorous, deferential, fair, felicitous, fit for society, fitting, fond of society, friendly, genial, genteel, graceful, gracious, gregarious, happy, hospitable, meet, metropolitan, obliging, poised, polite, proper, respectful, right, seemly, smooth, sociable, social, social-minded, solicitous, suitable, tactful, thoughtful
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Urbane, courteous
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