gentrify

Gentrify – Word of the Day

Tuba Mansoor
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/ˈdʒɛntrɪfʌɪ/

Meaning

  • renovate and improve (a house or district) so that it conforms to middle-class taste.
  • to change a place from being a poor area to a richer one, by people of a higher social class moving to live there:

Sample Sentences

  • The lower east side has undergone gentrification by homos and hipsters.
  • Socialists as well as others—have bought houses in those limited gentrified areas.
  • The area where I grew up has been all modernized and gentrified, and has lost all its old character.
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