citify
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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.""
- "The United States of America is not yet a jungle of metropolitan areas, but we are citifying at a very rapid pace."
- "My wife and I happened to have fought with authorities to address the extremely dangerous roads throughout this citifying rural community."
- "Harness racing was being citified by crooked lawyers."
- "In her role as a citifying presence, Athena often is associated with political structures, the administration of justice, and the arts of persuasion, such as rhetoric."
- ""But these newcomers are citifying the rural atmosphere." They're also citifying prices."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-der. Proto-Italic *keiwis Latin ceivis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin ceivitās Late Latin cīvitātem (city) Old French citetbor. Middle English cite English city English -fy English citify From city + -fy.