pregentrified

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adjective

Prior to gentrification.

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Meanings

adjectivepregentrified (not comparable)
  1. not comparablePrior to gentrification.

    So at times does the portrait’s artist, Justin Bua, whose characters are from a world far away in place and time: the pregentrified streets of the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the 1970s and ’80s.

    2007 April 29, Mireya Navarro, “A Lost New York as Seen From Way Out West”, in New York Times

Origin

From pre- + gentrified.

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APA

pregentrified. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pregentrified

MLA

“pregentrified.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pregentrified. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pregentrified,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pregentrified.

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