Gentrify

Today let's learn a new word, gentrify! [Transcript: Hi and welcome to Let’s Word Up! Each day we post a word of the day to help you improve your English language skills. Today’s word of the day is gentrify. Gentrify is a doing word therefore it is a verb. Gentrify has two meanings. Firstly it is to change the character of an urban area through wealthier people moving in, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, often displacing current inhabitants in the process. Secondly it is to make something more refined, polite, or respectable. An example of the word gentrify used in a sentence would be: The residents of the area were unhappy with the plans to gentrify the area, potentially forcing them out since they wouldn't be able to afford the raising prices. Or, He said he had plans to gentrify the game to make it more appealing, but none of us saw any issues with it. Thank you for listening, we hope that you found it helpful and interesting. Until next time.]