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citify

[ sit-i-fahy ]

verb (used with object)

, cit·i·fied, cit·i·fy·ing.
  1. to make into a city; urbanize.
  2. to cause to conform to city habits, fashions, etc.


citify

/ ˈsɪtɪˌfaɪ /

verb

  1. to cause to conform to or adopt the customs, habits, or dress of city people
  2. to make urban
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌcitifiˈcation, noun
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Other Words From

  • citi·fi·cation noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of citify1

First recorded in 1860–65; city + -fy
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Example Sentences

Annan: How do you then step into that and make it citified?

Going outside didn’t mean I had to cross paths with John and his citified ways.

This picture, directed by Stuart McDonald, is more in the not-terribly-different “citified go-getter falls under the spell of a magical place and the hunk who hangs out there” mode.

Even now, few Woodstock locals know the precise location, though it is not far from the storied town that the citified Mr. Bowie derided on his first visit in 2002 as “too cute for words.”

Agricultural counties versus citified ones, densely populated versus sparsely populated, poor counties feeling steamrolled by the interests of rich ones — people in every generation had a new reason to cut up California.

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