verb
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to cause to conform to or adopt the customs, habits, or dress of city people
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to make urban
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Origin of citify
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Wohlen had only begun its drive to citify the planet.
From The Man Who Played to Lose by Laurence M. Janifer
You 're 'n want o' sunthin' light an' cute, Rattlin' an' shrewd an' kin' o' jingleish, An' wish, pervidin' it 'ould suit, I 'd take an' citify my English.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various
You're 'n want o' sunthin' light an' cute, Rattlin' an' shrewd an' kin' o' jingleish, 10 An' wish, pervidin' it 'ould suit, I'd take an' citify my English.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
You're 'n want o' sunthin' light an' cute, 10Rattlin' an' shrewd an' kin' o' jingleish, An' wish, pervidin' it 'ould suit, I'd take an' citify my English.
From The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations by James Russell Lowell
With these landmark records, Busby also introduced new citified subject matter to bluegrass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Produced by country music explorer Sturgill Simpson, “Country Squire” is full of lessons learned on the “country music highway” about camper retirement, citified country boys and the hard work of commitment.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2019
The stranger reminds viewers that, in the West, “dude” is an insult—the naïve and citified dandy who’s a mere tourist or poseur in a place of rugged action and broken-in casualness.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 20, 2018
They felt that Bell needed a more citified spot.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2017
“I ain’t as good as Jimi Hendrix,” he said, “but he play them citified blues, anyway. I’m thinking about writing a blues number for you. I’m gonna call it “The Serious Stink Blues.”
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
It results in the citifying of the country with cubistic signboards, barbershops, women in new-style clothes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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