English Dictionary

citify

verb

(intransitive, informal) To become more like or more in the character of a city. / (transitive, slang) To make more like or more in the character of a city.

She decided to citify her small apartment by adding modern furniture and decorations.

意味（1）

(intransitive, informal) To become more like or more in the character of a city.

The metropolis grows like a tree in concentric circles, rim upon rim, the inner rings hardening or citifying and the outer bark expanding or urbanizing.

意味（2）

(transitive, slang) To make more like or more in the character of a city.

Harness racing was being citified by crooked lawyers.

意味（3）

(transitive, informal) To make more like a city person.

In taking his gage from a prostitute in the London stews, he appropriates in a burlesque mode the faltering aristocratic rituals that Richard and his father try to manage. He citifies them, or reveals how they have already been invaded by city modes of violence and desire in the history world.