metropolize

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To urbanize

   To urbanize; to center or focus on the city.

   • Thus, the major issue in current communication policy revolves around the tendency of new communications technologies to centralize and metropolize sources of information.
2. 2

   To develop into a city or urban area.

   • Spoon River, like towns in all parts of the country, has become a standardized community, a "metropolized" town.
   • Because of its rapid and recent growth this newly metropolized area was particularly hard hit by the demise of ambulance services.
   • I only ask that you not call us lazy, unless by that you mean we are not doing our part to help metropolize every last foot of wetland and old-growth forest.
3. 3

   To visit the city.

   • Where is that real Real* Devil, in, or out of London, — Jo. Parkes ? If he metropolizes, tell him he ought to come hither.
   • Nine days after this, under date of March 17, Lord Byron says, “We mean to metropolize to-morrow, and you will address your next to Piccadilly.”

The neighborhood