Urbanization is encroaching on rural life.
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Urbanization
Synonyms for "urbanization" (16 found)
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Closest matches (4)
Noun(4 words)
city developmentcity formationcity growthcity migration
Strong matches (4)
Noun(4 words)
degree of urbanizationlevel of urbanizationrise of citiesrise of modern civilization
Related words (8)
Noun(5 words)
Adjective(3 words)
urban society developmenturban society growthurbanized civilization
Related word relations
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More general
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4 entriesCollocations
6 entriesimpacts of urbanizationlevel of urbanizationrapid urbanizationurbanization policyurbanization rateurbanization trend
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
6 entriesTranslations
11 translations across 11 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- քաղաքակենտրոնացում noun (change in region)
Finnish
1 entries- kaupungistuminen noun (change in region)
French
1 entries- urbanisation noun (change in region)
German
1 entries- Urbanisierung noun (change in region)
Greek
1 entries- αστικοποίηση noun (change in region)
Irish
1 entries- uirbiú noun (change in region)
Italian
1 entries- urbanizzazione noun (change in region)
Khmer
1 entries- នគរូបនីយកម្ម noun (change in region)
Polish
1 entries- urbanizacja noun (change in region)
Russian
1 entries- урбаниза́ция noun (change in region)
Welsh
1 entries- trefoli noun (change in region)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Natural languages are not a reflection of the peoples' culture but rather a result of a massive, uncontrolled and hasty urbanization process, which stripped people of their true national identity only to substitute it with the cattle atmosphere of McDonald's, reality TV and commercial porn.
Source: tatoeba (2040677)
Agriculture, forestry and urbanization are increasing the amount of sediment, chemicals and plastics flowing into the oceans, and contaminating the coastline.
Source: tatoeba (8269861)
China continues to lose arable land because of erosion and urbanization.
Source: tatoeba (8904839)
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