gentrify Definition

gentrify
verb gentrifies, gentrified, gentrifying

1. To convert or renovate (housing) to conform to middle-class taste.
2. To make (an area) middle-class.

Derivative: gentrification
noun

derog
The change in the character of a traditionally working-class area following an influx of new middle-class residents.

Etymology: 1970s: from gentry.