boulevardize

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verb

To convert into boulevards.

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Meanings

verbboulevardize (third-person singular simple present boulevardizes, present participle boulevardizing, simple past and past participle boulevardized)

present singular third person boulevardizes · participle present boulevardizing · participle past boulevardized · past boulevardized

  1. transitiveTo convert into boulevards.

    This rage for boulevardizing has destroyed the quaint, queer, pestilential streets of old Paris, through which it was our pleasure to wander many years since.

    1864, Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, The Eclectic Review (volume 7? volume 120? page 130)

Origin

From boulevard + -ize.

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APA

boulevardize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boulevardize

MLA

“boulevardize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boulevardize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boulevardize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boulevardize.

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