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pregentrified

pregentrified adjective: prior to gentrification.

Adjective

pregentrified (not comparable)

  1. Prior to gentrification.
    • So at times does the portrait’s artist, Justin Bua, whose characters are from a world far away in place and time: the pregentrified streets of the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the 1970s and ’80s.2007 April 29, Mireya Navarro, “A Lost New York as Seen From Way Out West”, in New York Times

Origin of pregentrified

From pre- + gentrified.

Questions about pregentrified

What does pregentrified mean?
Pregentrified means prior to gentrification.
What part of speech is pregentrified?
Pregentrified is an adjective.

Words near pregentrified in the dictionary

  1. pregenomes
  2. pregenomic
  3. pregenre
  4. pregenres
  5. pregentrification
  6. pregentrified
  7. pregenual
  8. pregeological
  9. pregeometries
  10. pregeometry
  11. pregermarial

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