gentrify

English

/ˈdʒɛntɹɪfaɪ/

verb
Definitions
  • (transitive) to renovate or improve something, especially housing or district, to make it more appealing to the middle classes (often with the negative association of price pricing out existing residents)

Etymology

Suffix from English gentry root from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (produce, beget, give birth, be born, procreate, generate, beget give birth to, bear).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*ǵenh₁-

Gloss

produce, beget, give birth, be born, procreate, generate, beget give birth to, bear

Concept
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Modern world

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

産

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