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  • proper noun A male given name, rather rare in English.
  • proper noun A patronymic surname.
  • proper noun biblical An early Christian, also Urbane and Urbanus in various versions of the Bible.

Etymologies

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Latin Urbanus, name of eight early popes, from urbanus ("of the town or city, urbane").

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