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urbanized

urbanized

5 4.6
A place that has more buildings, roads, and people like a city
  • adjective
  • /ˈɜr.bən.aɪzd/
  • US
: urbanizado
  • A generation of young, urbanized African cartoonists replaced mythological or historical figures with men and women caught in their everyday lives.
  • urbanized areas
  • highly urbanized
  • increasingly urbanized

What emerges as urbanisation incurs is increasing gap in land value between anything that's urbanised and anything that's ruralised.

Examples

  • Again, according to the US census, 3/4 of the US population live in urbanized areas.

    Blog text (24)

  • The US census reports that three-quarters of the US population lives in urbanized areas.

    Blog text (24)

  • A large number of big cities make the region one of the most urbanized as well.

    Academic text (2007)

  • America is becoming more urbanized, and this also changes voting patterns.

    Blog text (29)

  • Thus, gender equality is expected to be higher in more urbanized states.

    Academic text (1990)

  • More than half of the world's population (approximately 6.4 billion people) lives in urbanized places.

    Academic text (2006)

  • The exception is the Latin American and Caribbean region, which is as urbanized as industrialized countries.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Now there's this huge withdrawal from the countryside toward more urbanized departments.

  • Specifically, risk for obesity and type 2 diabetes has been shown to increase as immigrants become more affluent and urbanized.

    Academic text (2011)

  • As cities expand, more areas are becoming urbanized, with residential buildings and shops replacing farms.

Synonyms

urban
vsurbanized
521 2.5

About a city or town rather than the countryside

describes the process of becoming like a city through development and growth
developed
vsurbanized
4 3.2

Land made useful by building houses, roads or other improvements

focuses on changing character and appearance to resemble a city through growth
built-up
vsurbanized
4 4.0

An area with many buildings and little open land

describes density and building concentration rather than overall city character or growth
city-like
vsurbanized
2 4.1

Like a city with busy streets and tall buildings

names the same appearance but not the process of becoming like a city

Antonyms

rural
363 2.5

Of the countryside rather than the city, often near farms and open land

undeveloped
12 4.1

Land not yet used or built on

How Urbanized

metropolitan
102 4.8
urbanized
  • US
5 4.6
suburban
225 3.5
rural
363 2.5

Surface Forms

urbanized positive

Morphology

urbanized = urbanize (transparent) = urban + ize + ed

Formed by adding a standard adjective/past-participle suffix '-ed' to the verb 'urbanize', creating the meaning 'made more like a city'.

Etymology

Urbanized comes from the part urban, from a Latin word meaning 'city'. Words like urban and suburban are about cities, so urbanized means 'made more like a city' or changed to have city features.