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urbanizer

urbanizer noun: one who develops a place into a city.

Noun

urbanizer (plural urbanizers)

  1. One who develops a place into a city.
  2. A place that takes on the characteristics of cities.
    • However, rapid urbanization would be a major break from India's past as the country has been, so far, a reluctant urbanizer. It took half a century for the share of urban population to rise from 17% in 1951 to 28.5% in 2001.2008, Sanjeev Sanyal, The Indian renaissance: India's rise after a thousand years of decline, page 193

Forms of urbanizer

pluralurbanizers

Origin of urbanizer

From urbanize + -er.

Questions about urbanizer

What does urbanizer mean?
Urbanizer means one who develops a place into a city.
What part of speech is urbanizer?
Urbanizer is a noun.
What is the plural of urbanizer?
The plural of urbanizer is urbanizers.

Words near urbanizer in the dictionary

  1. urbanity
  2. urbanization
  3. urbanizations
  4. urbanize
  5. urbanized
  6. urbanizer
  7. urbanizers
  8. urbanizes
  9. urbanizing
  10. urbanlike
  11. urbanly

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