gentrify

Signification (Anglais)

To renovate or improve something, especially housing or district, to make it more appealing to the middle classes (now often with the negative association of pricing out existing residents).

Concepts

embourgeoiser

gentrifier

Synonymes

renew

improve

rehabilitate

reinvigorate

Traductions

gentrificar

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈd͡ʒɛn.tɹɪ.faɪ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From gentry + -fy.