urbanize

English

Alternative forms

• urbanise

Etymology

urban +‎ -ize

Verb

urbanize (third-person singular simple present urbanizes, present participle urbanizing, simple past and past participle urbanized)

1. To make something more urban in character.
2. To take up an urban way of life.

Translations

to make something more urban in character

• Belarusian: урбанізава́ць impf (urbanizavácʹ)
• Catalan: urbanitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 城市化 (zh) (chéngshìhuà)

• Finnish: kaupunkimaistaa
• Galician: urbanizar (gl)
• German: urbanisieren (de)
• Greek: αστικοποιώ (el) (astikopoió)
• Hungarian: urbanizál (hu), városiasít (hu)
• Polish: urbanizować impf
• Portuguese: urbanizar (pt)
• Romanian: urbaniza (ro)
• Russian: урбанизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (urbanizírovatʹ)
• Spanish: urbanizar (es)
• Ukrainian: урбанізува́ти impf or pf (urbanizuváty)

to take up an urban way of life

• Azerbaijani: şəhərləşmək
• Bulgarian: урбанизирам (urbaniziram)
• Finnish: kaupunkilaistua
• Hungarian: urbanizálódik (hu), városiasodik (hu)
• Portuguese: urbanizar-se
• Spanish: urbanizarse (es)

Portuguese

Verb

urbanize

1. inflection of urbanizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative