MEANING
To make or become urban through settlement, development, or related changes.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- urbanize an area
- a region urbanizes
On the page
The region urbanized faster than its transport network adapted.
They urbanized the corridor without preserving the route to the fields.
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- urbanize
- Past tense
- urbanized
- Past participle
- urbanized
- Present participle
- urbanizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- urbanize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are urbanizing
- Present perfect
- have/has urbanized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been urbanizing
- Past
- urbanized
- Past continuous
- was/were urbanizing
- Past perfect
- had urbanized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been urbanizing
- Future
- will urbanize
- Future continuous
- will be urbanizing
- Future perfect
- will have urbanized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been urbanizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: setting. Forms: urbanize; urbanizes; urbanized; urbanized; urbanizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: urbanizes.
Practice this word in a sentenceYour margin notes
Keep a thought for later. Sign in to save privately.