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gentrified
[jen-truh-fahyd]
adjective
very or excessively refined or elegant.
subjected to gentrification.
Word History and Origins
Origin of gentrified1
Example Sentences
The area was gentrified by tract homes where nuclear families would settle.
“I hope it doesn’t just turn into some gentrified market or something,” she said.
He is concerned that individuals buying homes for a $1 may lead to areas being gentrified, which results in general rent levels being “jacked up” and people on lower incomes being “pushed out”.
A seven-story boulder on federal land has become a tinderbox of tensions over who gets to enjoy this patch of Mojave Desert, which has rapidly gentrified since the COVID-19 pandemic.
In Portland, Ore., for example, as formerly working- and middle-class neighborhoods gentrified, small bungalows were ripped down and replaced by large McMansions.
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