/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.