Gentrify is an English word with synonyms like refurbish or renovate. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Gentrify meaning
- 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).
- To develop and invest in a penurious or impoverished place.
Using Gentrify
- The main meaning on this page is: 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). | To develop and invest in a penurious or impoverished place.
- Useful related words include: refurbish, renovate, freshen up.
- In the example corpus, gentrify often appears in combinations such as: to gentrify.
Context around Gentrify
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gentrify
- In this selection, "gentrify" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, neighbourhoods and neighborhoods stand out and add context to how "gentrify" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ago to gentrify a city and privatise and gentrify neighbourhoods. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gentrify" sits close to words such as aaai, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gentrify
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In Liverpool, local residents have fought successive attempts to privatise and gentrify neighbourhoods. (13 words)
No city planner or legislator wanted to dedicate the enormous amount of money it would take to gentrify neighborhoods that have been struggling with poverty for decades. (27 words)
All the same a lot of people weren’t happy that Maxton wanted to gentrify the area and Rameen had personally wanted to protest the city shutting down the center. (30 words)
The plan to tidy up Waterloo Square is part of a larger drive that began 15 years ago to gentrify a city known internationally for its sex trade, cannabis-dispensing “coffee shops” and atmosphere of freedom. (36 words)
All the same a lot of people weren’t happy that Maxton wanted to gentrify the area and Rameen had personally wanted to protest the city shutting down the center. (30 words)
No city planner or legislator wanted to dedicate the enormous amount of money it would take to gentrify neighborhoods that have been struggling with poverty for decades. (27 words)
Example sentences (4)
In Liverpool, local residents have fought successive attempts to privatise and gentrify neighbourhoods.
No city planner or legislator wanted to dedicate the enormous amount of money it would take to gentrify neighborhoods that have been struggling with poverty for decades.
All the same a lot of people weren’t happy that Maxton wanted to gentrify the area and Rameen had personally wanted to protest the city shutting down the center.
The plan to tidy up Waterloo Square is part of a larger drive that began 15 years ago to gentrify a city known internationally for its sex trade, cannabis-dispensing “coffee shops” and atmosphere of freedom.
Common combinations with gentrify
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to gentrify 3×