Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or pretending to have the sophisticated style or manner associated with an urban way of life.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the manners, dress, etc., of city life.
- Having the manners, dress, etc., of city life.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Aping, or having, the manners of a city.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
citify . - adjective Characteristic of the
sophisticated customs or dress associated withcity life.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person
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Examples
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It is these "citified" Huichols who, because of the need for money have drawn attention to their rich culture through their art.
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It is these "citified" Huichols who, because of the need for money have drawn attention to their rich culture through their art.
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He really _was_ a good-looking young man, and in his knickerbockers and golf stockings Janice thought he seemed very "citified" indeed.
Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long
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Dave scented patronage in his "citified" air; he and other young men at the table -- young men who helped about the farm -- resented everything about the stranger from the self-satisfied poise of his head to the aggressive gloss on his riding-boots.
'Way Down East A Romance of New England Life Joseph Rhode Grismer 1885
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Peucinian and the Athenæan, and the difference between them might be described by the words "citified" and "countrified," without taking either of those terms in an objectionable sense.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Frank Preston Stearns 1881
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John finds this richly ironic, because he knows that Pharisees and Sadducees would be united in their "citified" contempt of him, because he's a roughneck who doesn't "dress properly," and everyone in Jerusalem surely knows it.
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John finds this richly ironic, because he knows that Pharisees and Sadducees would be united in their "citified" contempt of him, because he's a roughneck who doesn't "dress properly," and everyone in Jerusalem surely knows it.
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John finds this richly ironic, because he knows that Pharisees and Sadducees would be united in their "citified" contempt of him, because he's a roughneck who doesn't "dress properly," and everyone in Jerusalem surely knows it.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Zdimiele 2009
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John finds this richly ironic, because he knows that Pharisees and Sadducees would be united in their "citified" contempt of him, because he's a roughneck who doesn't "dress properly," and everyone in Jerusalem surely knows it.
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a ghost-moon hanging, no more than a foot above the highest spire, you must surely be "citified" if you do not pause to drink in its weird sublimity and wild beauty.
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