citified
pronunciation
How to pronounce citified in British English:
UK [ˈsɪtɪfaɪd]
How to pronounce citified in American English:
US [ˈsɪtɪˌfaɪd]
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- Adjective:
- being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person
Word Origin
- citified (adj.)
- 1819, American English, from city + past participle ending from words in -fy.
Example
- 1. Therefore , studying the village administration management pattern for citified outskirts villages possess the special academic value and practicing significance .
- 2. In the gilded age , the productivity was increasingly enhanced , the trust organizations also emerged constantly , the citified process was full of vigor and vitality .
- 3. Most importantly , to an increasingly buttoned-down and citified population leading ordinary lives , he was the last frontiersman-a symbol of freedom and the american spirit , a charismatic rebel who flouted the law and lived by his own rules ...... by all accounts , a legend .