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citify

[ sit-i-fahy ]

verb (used with object)

citified, citifying.
  1. to make into a city; urbanize.
  2. to cause to conform to city habits, fashions, etc.


citify

/ ˈɪɪˌڲɪ /

verb

  1. to cause to conform to or adopt the customs, habits, or dress of city people
  2. to make urban
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Derived Forms

  • ˌپھˈپDz, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • i·ھ·tDz noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of citify1

First recorded in 1860–65; city + -fy
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Annan: How do you then step into that and make it citified?

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

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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.

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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.”

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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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