to gentrify
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- verb
- /ˈdʒɛntrɪfaɪ/
- Literature
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gentrificar
- Schools are also anchors in gentrifying communities and signals to investors of the market potential of new development sites.
- gentrified neighborhoods
Today, Newham is being regenerated, which is to say gentrified.
- Today, Newham is being regenerated, which is to say gentrified.
- So it's safe, but it's still more slightly more affordable, but it's become quite gentrified, even pretty far north.
- I live in a neighborhood that I would not describe as overly gentrifying.
- It was in the face of an understaffed homeless shelter and an increasingly gentrifying town.
- It's since been gentrified and he gets off at the wrong stop and he doesn't really know where he is.
- People are gentrifying neighborhoods like you brought up earlier, being born black is the only thing that they were that they've done.
Examples
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Let's gentrify this neighborhood, build strip malls, fast food chains, lots of popular entertainment.
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Tom Cousins's interest in the team was a function of his desire to gentrify his real estate holdings in downtown Atlanta.
Academic text (2014) -
The whole East Side will just gentrify overnight.
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Now the school is gentrified, but now you are part of that.
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I thought it was a gentrifying neighborhood.
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"My neighborhood is currently getting gentrified, and it doesn't need to be.
Blog text (24) -
Bayview is gonna go the way that Fillmore did, and they're gonna gentrify the neighborhood and push out the people who are living there now and bring in more upscale people.
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What is now known as Spanish Harlem was once Italian Harlem until it was gentrified by Puerto Ricans and other Latinos.
Blog text (23) -
My commuter bus, sleek, clean, and air-conditioned, speeds me home to Ripley, a river village forever being gentrified and never quite becoming a proper yuppie domain.
Fiction book (1992) -
The city plans to gentrify the neighborhood, attracting new businesses and higher rents.
Synonyms
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To make land or an area ready for a new use like shops
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To repair and improve a building or room so it looks new again
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To change how land is used, often replacing old buildings with new ones
Make a room or building better by fixing and changing it
Antonyms
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To fall into ruin or cause something to fall into ruin because it is not cared for
How Gentrified
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gentrify comes from gentry, a word for the 'upper class' or well-off people. So to gentrify a neighborhood is to make it more like where the gentry live — with nicer shops and homes — which often pushes out poorer residents.