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单词 urbanize
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urbanizev.

Brit. /ˈəːbənʌɪz/, /ˈəːbn̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈərbəˌnaɪz/
Forms: 1600s vrbanize, 1700s– urbanize, 1800s– urbanise.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: urbane adj., -ize suffix; urban adj., -ize suffix.
Etymology: Partly < urbane adj. + -ize suffix, and partly < urban adj. + -ize suffix. With sense 1 compare Spanish urbanizar (1618; a1888 in sense ‘to convert (a place) into an urban area’). In sense 2b perhaps partly after French urbaniser (although this is first attested slightly later in this sense: 1873; 1785 in sense 1 (now archaic or literary in this sense)).
1. transitive. To make more refined or polished; to civilize, make urbane. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > humanistic studies > improve the mind, cultivate [verb (transitive)]
till1393
enrich1502
refine1592
cultivate?1631
unblade1633
urbanize1642
smooth1644
culture1677
metropolitanize1870
1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell i. 9 Those more refined Nations, whom Learning and Knowledge did first Vrbanize and polish.
1785 Hist. & Antiq. York II. 2 In order to cultivate a better Understanding of human Nature amongst them, and urbanize their savage Disposition.
1787 Parl. Reg. Ireland VII. 487 Depressing the spirit or subduing the fortitude of a people, whose manners it would urbanize.
1808 Inq. Pastoral Poetry in A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd 162 They [sc. shepherds] have been polished and urbanized by artificial refinements.
2.
a. transitive. To accustom (a person) to life in a city or town.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (transitive)] > accustom to life in town
urbanize1836
1836 London Disp. 6 Nov. 58/2 The restoration of those few but substantial blessings known to our simple ancestors before trade and manufactures had urbanized one half of our population.
1897 Gunton's Mag. July 68 The effect of protective duties has been mainly to..urbanize a large portion of the population.
1907 Times 6 Aug. 10/3 In every country, old and new, the people were being rapidly urbanized.
1972 J. Race War comes to Long An ii. 54 The purpose of the agroville was to gather all these people together, to urbanize them, to bring the light of civilization to them.
b. transitive. To make urban in character or appearance; to convert into an urban area; to cause (a place) to lose its rural character or quality.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [verb (transitive)] > urbanize
townify1798
urbanize1866
1866 Times 5 June 9/5 This noble friend had well described the Bill as one to ‘urbanize’ the county constituencies.
1888 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 4 Feb. 2/3 It is impossible to urbanize the country.
1906 Westm. Rev. Dec. 641 The multiplying factories and workrooms and work-yards of every kind would urbanise vast areas.
1963 T. Yazaki Japanese City i. ii. 20 The special features of the city..radiate into the region surrounding a city and serve to urbanize other communities.
1992 Oxfordshire Bull. Nov. 9/2 The brilliant lighting..would insensitively urbanize the present rural character of Shotover.

Derivatives

ˈurbanized adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [adjective] > inhabiting town or city
city dwelling1593
urbane1601
burgessing1663
urban1762
town-dwelling1829
urbanized1884
townee1907
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [adjective] > urbanized
urbanized1884
1884 Western Morning News 17 July 4/5 The Government will..then appeal to the urbanised counties.
1908 W. S. Blunt Diary 15 Apr. (1923) II. vii. 199 He is rather disappointed with the political organization of the Nationalists and their little hold over the country districts. He calls them terribly urbanized.
1917 W. E. Weyl Amer. World Policies xiii. 184 The increasing financial burden of children in an urbanised society.
1974 Times 22 Apr. 7/3 What about the eight million urbanized blacks living in white cities?
2007 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 14 Mar. a15/1 Canada, once 78 per cent urbanized, is now 80 per cent urbanized.
ˈurbanizing adj. and n.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [adjective] > urbanizing
urbanizing1775
mushroom1819
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Urbanizing, rendering civil, making courteous.
1854 J. E. R. Hornblower Vara xvii. 179 A good-natured family, with some refined feelings and ‘country manners’, who only needed a little urbanizing to render them delightful companions.
1934 Econ. Jrnl. 44 715 The danger of a ‘mass culture’—such as results from the urbanising tendency of Rationalisation—can be avoided by greater attention to human factors.
1979 Washington Post 13 Oct. e1/1 (heading) The urbanizing of suburbia.
2002 J. Sagar in H.-J. Henket & H. Heynen Back from Utopia 374 The city is..changing and evolving in response to the urbanizing pressures overtaking the country.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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