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urbanise

urbanise is the alternative spelling of urbanize.

Meaning of urbanize

Verb

urbanize (third-person singular simple present urbanizes, present participle urbanizing, simple past and past participle urbanized)

  1. To make something more urban in character.
  2. To take up an urban way of life.

Forms of urbanise

third-person singular presenturbanises
present participleurbanising
past participleurbanised
pasturbanised

Origin of urbanise

From urban + -ise.

Words formed from urbanise

Questions about urbanise

What is urbanise the alternative spelling of?
Urbanise is the alternative spelling of urbanize.

Words near urbanise in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: urbanise (page history and authors); urbanize (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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