urbanely

1. 1.

   in an urbane manner

   “`I had tea occasionally with the Duke,' said Mr. Eggers urbanely”

Questions about urbanely

What does urbanely mean?

urbanely means "in an urbane manner".

How many syllables are in urbanely?

urbanely has 4 syllables and divides as ur-ba-ne-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is urbanely a common word?

urbanely is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.