What is "gentrified"

Usage examples of "gentrified".

Some of the residential allotments are going up in the world too: they are getting gentrified, humidified, marbleized.

Waterboro was being gentrified and ossified, and it was hoped that the Institute would be able to restore life to the community.

And then it was clear: pickup basketball on an urban court around which rip-off-the-tourist drug deals met gentrified neighborhood in early autumn sunshine.

South was low ground, traditionally poorer, now patchily gentrified, but with a unique nature of its own.

Since then, they had been smartened up and gentrified out of all recognition, their gleaming paintwork and shiny, clean, linen-draped windows confusing and bewildering her.

This was a semirural section of the Gia Hoi suburb of Hue, a place we would describe today as a gentrified exurb.