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Definition of gentrify in English: gentrifyverbgentrifies, gentrifying, gentrifiedˈdʒɛntrɪfʌɪˈdʒɛntrəˌfaɪ [with object]1Renovate and improve (a house or district) so that it conforms to middle-class taste. Example sentencesExamples - City leaders promised solutions, but many of them involved gentrifying poor neighborhoods.
- Regional and local development has often invested in physical resources, such as gentrifying an area with a new museum, art gallery, or library.
- ‘It's getting SoMa-ed,’ says one local, comparing it to the more completely gentrified South of Market district that lies just to the north.
- College towns, upscale suburbs, and newly gentrifying urban neighborhoods were indeed becoming Democratic as blue-collar areas moved rightward.
- The few gentrified streets did once house members of the leftish intelligentsia.
- The house had that gentrified look common along the Peacham Road.
- Denver is a newly gentrified metropolitan area surrounded by the rugged, snow-capped Colorado Rockies.
- It hardly oozes charm now, although there have been a few attempts to gentrify it.
- The city is going to knock down this building and gentrify the neighborhood.
- By the late '70s, graffiti had moved from the trains to the walls, and become a key symbol in the efforts of mayors to gentrify low-income communities of color.
- The drawback to adding roughly 1,000 new residents a week and gentrifying urban neighborhoods is that Sydney could lose its distinctive flavor and drive out the artists who made those areas appealing.
- Their regular meeting place was a restaurant smack-dab in the middle of the newly gentrified Times Square.
- He has insisted his club will gentrify the deprived north inner-city area around Parnell Street.
- The university wanted to put the $125 million, 330,000-square-foot building at the edge of campus, where it would help move the college southward and further gentrify the area.
- Apart from hastily built apartment blocks, there is no real sense of community in any newly gentrified city area.
- It tells the owner of the development that by gentrifying a run-down area of the city, their speculative accumulation actually has a positive, even indispensable social role.
- Others worry that the plan is an excuse to gentrify areas that have become valuable in the years since public housing went up.
- All of these seem to be part of a wide-ranging plan to gentrify the downtown Cleveland area.
- This attracted the yuppies (and the liberal artsy types), who have been slowly gentrifying the town for the past 20 odd years.
- When the university so gentrifies its immediate neighborhood that store rents there are higher than in the city center, a lesson is taught.
Synonyms modernize, restore, redecorate, refurbish, revamp, make over, recondition, rehabilitate, overhaul, repair, redevelop, rebuild, reconstruct, remodel - 1.1usually as adjective gentrified Make (someone or their way of life) more refined or polite.
a gentrified Irish American Example sentencesExamples - The actress plays Julia Cook, the gentrified, married English lover of Ned and a fictional character.
- JM Synge was born an Englishman and inhabited the same gentrified Anglo-Irish world as Yeats.
- The gentrified and artistic world Hesselius's daughters and descendants married into can be traced under the family name, and under ‘Wertmuller.’
- You are producing generation after generation of chaps and girls who have a very limited understanding of life experience outside of their own gentrified clique.
- People like myself who are long-term residents of the area have themselves become gentrified, and that's really symptomatic of what's happened here as a whole.
- The regulars jammed against the bar are part of the young, gentrified crowd who have colonised the inner walls of the City.
- In the absence of other candidates, Highland commissions had to be filled up with such men, a less gentrified set than their English counterparts.
- You can't expect to be free to work the street in areas used extensively by gentrified yuppies.
- The rivalry between a gentrified family and a wealthy tradesman turns to tragedy when the former use their discovery of the dark past of the tradesman's daughter-in-law to thwart his building plans.
- Overall, Smith's study in social boorishness stood up to a 40-minute York set, although his gentrified persona occasionally grated, and it would be fascinating to see how he handled a hostile crowd.
- Maybe it's because that grouping of people is so out of context these days… or that they look so gentrified almost, so adult, so grown up, so not rock starish.
Derivatives noun He embodies all that is reprehensible in the voice of the impatient self-serving gentrifier Example sentencesExamples - ‘He embodies all that is reprehensible in the voice of the impatient self-serving gentrifier
- By the late twentieth century, many of the migrant families or their descendants were also moving from the inner city to newer outer suburban areas eventually to be replaced by middle-class gentrifiers.
- Soon he was gutting and renovating previously vacant buildings, and selling to yuppie gentrifiers.
Definition of gentrify in US English: gentrifyverbˈdʒɛntrəˌfaɪˈjentrəˌfī [with object]1Renovate and improve (a house or district) so that it conforms to middle-class taste. Example sentencesExamples - ‘It's getting SoMa-ed,’ says one local, comparing it to the more completely gentrified South of Market district that lies just to the north.
- Denver is a newly gentrified metropolitan area surrounded by the rugged, snow-capped Colorado Rockies.
- The city is going to knock down this building and gentrify the neighborhood.
- It tells the owner of the development that by gentrifying a run-down area of the city, their speculative accumulation actually has a positive, even indispensable social role.
- When the university so gentrifies its immediate neighborhood that store rents there are higher than in the city center, a lesson is taught.
- College towns, upscale suburbs, and newly gentrifying urban neighborhoods were indeed becoming Democratic as blue-collar areas moved rightward.
- The university wanted to put the $125 million, 330,000-square-foot building at the edge of campus, where it would help move the college southward and further gentrify the area.
- Apart from hastily built apartment blocks, there is no real sense of community in any newly gentrified city area.
- City leaders promised solutions, but many of them involved gentrifying poor neighborhoods.
- Their regular meeting place was a restaurant smack-dab in the middle of the newly gentrified Times Square.
- By the late '70s, graffiti had moved from the trains to the walls, and become a key symbol in the efforts of mayors to gentrify low-income communities of color.
- All of these seem to be part of a wide-ranging plan to gentrify the downtown Cleveland area.
- It hardly oozes charm now, although there have been a few attempts to gentrify it.
- The house had that gentrified look common along the Peacham Road.
- This attracted the yuppies (and the liberal artsy types), who have been slowly gentrifying the town for the past 20 odd years.
- Others worry that the plan is an excuse to gentrify areas that have become valuable in the years since public housing went up.
- Regional and local development has often invested in physical resources, such as gentrifying an area with a new museum, art gallery, or library.
- The few gentrified streets did once house members of the leftish intelligentsia.
- He has insisted his club will gentrify the deprived north inner-city area around Parnell Street.
- The drawback to adding roughly 1,000 new residents a week and gentrifying urban neighborhoods is that Sydney could lose its distinctive flavor and drive out the artists who made those areas appealing.
Synonyms modernize, restore, redecorate, refurbish, revamp, make over, recondition, rehabilitate, overhaul, repair, redevelop, rebuild, reconstruct, remodel - 1.1usually as adjective gentrified Make (someone or their way of life) more refined or polite.
a gentrified Irish American Example sentencesExamples - The actress plays Julia Cook, the gentrified, married English lover of Ned and a fictional character.
- The rivalry between a gentrified family and a wealthy tradesman turns to tragedy when the former use their discovery of the dark past of the tradesman's daughter-in-law to thwart his building plans.
- The regulars jammed against the bar are part of the young, gentrified crowd who have colonised the inner walls of the City.
- Maybe it's because that grouping of people is so out of context these days… or that they look so gentrified almost, so adult, so grown up, so not rock starish.
- You can't expect to be free to work the street in areas used extensively by gentrified yuppies.
- In the absence of other candidates, Highland commissions had to be filled up with such men, a less gentrified set than their English counterparts.
- Overall, Smith's study in social boorishness stood up to a 40-minute York set, although his gentrified persona occasionally grated, and it would be fascinating to see how he handled a hostile crowd.
- You are producing generation after generation of chaps and girls who have a very limited understanding of life experience outside of their own gentrified clique.
- The gentrified and artistic world Hesselius's daughters and descendants married into can be traced under the family name, and under ‘Wertmuller.’
- People like myself who are long-term residents of the area have themselves become gentrified, and that's really symptomatic of what's happened here as a whole.
- JM Synge was born an Englishman and inhabited the same gentrified Anglo-Irish world as Yeats.
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