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metropolitanize

metropolitanize verb: to make metropolitan; to adapt to the norms of a metropolis.

Verb

metropolitanize (third-person singular simple present metropolitanizes, present participle metropolitanizing, simple past and past participle metropolitanized)

  1. (transitive) To make metropolitan; to adapt to the norms of a metropolis.

Forms of metropolitanize

third-person singular presentmetropolitanizes
present participlemetropolitanizing
past participlemetropolitanized
pastmetropolitanized

Origin of metropolitanize

From metropolitan + -ize.

Questions about metropolitanize

What does metropolitanize mean?
Metropolitanize means to make metropolitan; to adapt to the norms of a metropolis.
What part of speech is metropolitanize?
Metropolitanize is a verb.
What is the past tense of metropolitanize?
The past tense of metropolitanize is metropolitanized.

Words near metropolitanize in the dictionary

  1. metropolitanises
  2. metropolitanising
  3. metropolitanism
  4. metropolitanisms
  5. metropolitanization
  6. metropolitanize
  7. metropolitanized
  8. metropolitanizes
  9. metropolitanizing
  10. metropolitanly
  11. metropolitans

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