gentrified
past simple and past participle ofgentrify
gentrify
verb[Toften passive]
disapprovinguk/ˈdʒen.trɪ.faɪ/us/ˈdʒen.trə.faɪ/tochangeaplacefrom being apoorareato aricherone, bypeopleof ahighersocialclassmovingtolivethere:
Theareawhere Igrewup has been allmodernizedand gentrified, and haslostallitsoldcharacter.
Class & class-consciousness in general
- anti-bourgeois
- anti-snob
- arriviste
- bougie
- gentrification
- gentrify
- go/come down in the worldidiom
- go/come up in the worldidiom
- pedigreed
- petit bourgeois
- petty bourgeois
- pleb
- social climbing
- social mobility
- the bottom of the heapidiom
- the gentry
- the petite bourgeoisie
- trailer trash
- underclass
- upper class
Examplesofgentrified
gentrified
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Then there would be the more extreme forms of hip-hop - sub-genres that represent a radical break from other more 'gentrified' popular forms.
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Socialists as well as others—have bought houses in those limitedgentrifiedareas.
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They wanted them to becomegentrifiedand to be country landowners with leisure time.
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An area may go down hill or it may becomegentrified(to use a ghastly word).
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Their sons weregentrified, went into the professions and ignored industry.
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They have pointed out that some of the traditional lorry drivers' cafés have changed their character and become what has been called "gentrified".
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What about somebody who lives in a small house in a rundown area that has suddenly becomegentrified?
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It says that gentrification takes homes from people who badly need them and provides a contrast between thegentrifiedand people who are living in poverty.
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As the neighbourhood hasgentrified, it has gained citywide, and even international, visibility and support.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The opposing side, the community saved side, argues that community activity increases when neighborhoods aregentrifiedbecause these neighborhoods are being revitalized.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Although historically a working class community, in recent years the neighborhood has been substantiallygentrified.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The neighborhood remains largely white, but it continues to becomegentrified.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Now, with crime rates down, the area is quickly becominggentrified.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These changes are echoed by the front cover, whose frontispiece becomes moregentrified.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It dealt with the longings and dreams of a group of children whose neighborhood was beinggentrifiedand who were forced to move out.
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