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urbanisation

urbanisation is the alternative spelling of urbanization.

Meaning of urbanization

Noun

urbanization (countable and uncountable, plural urbanizations)

  1. The process of the formation and growth of cities.
  2. The change in a country or region when its population migrates from rural to urban areas.
  3. The proportion of a region's population that live in towns and cities; the rate at which this proportion is growing.

Forms of urbanisation

pluralurbanisations

Words formed from urbanisation

Questions about urbanisation

What is urbanisation the alternative spelling of?
Urbanisation is the alternative spelling of urbanization.

Words near urbanisation in the dictionary

  1. Urbaniaks
  2. urbanicities
  3. urbanicity
  4. Urbanik
  5. Urbaniks
  6. urbanisation
  7. urbanisations
  8. urbanise
  9. urbanised
  10. urbaniser
  11. urbanisers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: urbanisation (page history and authors); urbanization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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