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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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, 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
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
Wohlen had only begun its drive to citify the planet.
From The Man Who Played to Lose by Laurence M. Janifer
The hybrid’s demeanor is more citified, answering throttle demand with an electric-enhanced alacrity and seizing every opportunity to go quiet and save energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
Bengtson guesses that many other films were shot in the vicinity too — one of the only citified corners in an early Hollywood that still mostly didn’t look urban.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2021
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
Hoover’s men are smug, citified so-and-sos in trim suits who set great store by fancy crime-fighting techniques like fingerprint analysis, wiretaps, two-way radios and aerial surveillance.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2019
Mary Alice and I carried the tale home that a suspicious type had come off the train in citified clothes and a stiff straw hat.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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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