urban vs urbane
Definitions
adjective
- relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area
- located in or characteristic of a city or city life
Examples
This does not exclude the existence of pockets of the urban population with unrealized homosexual desires.
Urban guerrillas detonated a car bomb in front of the company's headquarters.
Sometimes he goes to watch birds in the suburban marshes, where more rare species can be found.
Definitions
adjective
- showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience
Examples
He appears, at first sight, to be very like his urbane television character, the radio psychiatrist Dr Frasier Crane.
That expenditure our sons will incur just on their motorcycles and mobile phones," the turbaned, grey-bearded Mr. Singh says.
One of my favourites, this is a light hearted piece inspired by a chance encounter at a private party with a man then at the height of his power in the country; I was fascinated beyond words by the effect he had on the would-be urbane and aspiringly sophisticated!
