urbanity

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /əːˈbæn.ɪ.ti/    美 /ɝˈbæn.ə.ti/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Behaviour that is polished, refined, courteous. countable,uncountable
    — The vaunted courtesy of the old school, the smooth urbanity that prevailed in former days [...]
  2. Urbanness. countable,uncountable
    — [...], the majority of cases will differ as to "urbanity", as most of the evacuees were rural.

词形变化

urbanities plural

词源

From Middle English urbanitie, from Middle French urbanité, from Latin urbānitās, from urbānus (“belonging to a city”), with a sense of "having the manners of townspeople" in Classical Latin, from urbs (“city”); equivalent to urbane + -ity (sense 1) and urban + -ity (sense 2).
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary