urbanization
urbanization noun: the process of the formation and growth of cities.
Noun
urbanization (countable and uncountable, plural urbanizations)
- The process of the formation and growth of cities.
- The change in a country or region when its population migrates from rural to urban areas.
- The proportion of a region's population that live in towns and cities; the rate at which this proportion is growing.
urbanization meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
urbanization in Hindi
- growth of cities
- नगरीकरण nagrīkraṇ
urbanization in Tamil
- நகர்மயமாக்கல்
urbanization in Urdu
- growth of cities
- شہرکاری śaharkārī
urbanization in Bengali
- growth of cities
- নগরায়ন nograẏon
More languagesFewer languages
- urbanization in Kannada
- ನಗರೀಕರಣ
- urbanization in Punjabi
- ਸ਼ਹਿਰੀਕਰਨ śahirīkran
- urbanization in Arabic
- تَمَدُّن tamaddun, تَحَضُّر taḥaḍḍur
- urbanization in Malay
- pembandaran
- urbanization in Indonesian
- urbanisasi
- urbanization in Persian
- شهرنشینی šahr-nešini
- urbanization in Thai
- นคราภิวัตน์, การกลายเป็นนคร, การกลายเป็นเมือง, การทำให้เป็นเมือง
- urbanization in Vietnamese
- sự thành thị hoá, đô thị hóa
Examples of urbanization in a sentence
- China’s pell-mell, brisk urbanization has in some ways made the challenge harder to face.
- Today many homegardens are threatened by urbanization, industrialization of agriculture, and other challenges.
- Another physical impact of urbanization in Asia has been the intensification of the primacy of capital cities.
Forms of urbanization
| plural | urbanizations |
|---|---|
| alternative form | urbanisation |
Origin of urbanization
From urbanize + -ation.
Words formed from urbanization
Questions about urbanization
- What does urbanization mean?
- Urbanization means the process of the formation and growth of cities.
- What is urbanization in Hindi?
- Urbanization in Hindi is नगरीकरण (nagrīkraṇ). See Urbanization meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is urbanization?
- Urbanization is a noun.
- What is the plural of urbanization?
- The plural of urbanization is urbanizations.
Words near urbanization in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: urbanization (page history and authors); urbanization (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); urbanization (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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