Countrify
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkʌn.tɹɪ.fʌɪ/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Countrify is a verb meaning (transitive) To make rural or rustic.
Meaning
(transitive) To make rural or rustic.
More Meanings
- (transitive, especially of a cover version) To make more like country music.
Example Sentences
Even whitebread folk-rockers like the Byrds were, thanks to Gram Parsons, countrifying soul hits like "You Don't Miss Your Water."
LOVEL. When I am properly habited, you ſhall get me introduced to Philip as one of your Tenant's Sons, who wants to be made a good Servant of. / FREEMAN. They will certainly diſcover you. / LOVEL. Never fear, I'll be ſo countrify'd that you ſhall not know me.
This tendency to move away from crowded centers of population, with their congested apartment life, to the country and small towns where the laborer and his family may have cheap breathing space—in other words, this countrifying of industries—is growing more and more evident.
Word Forms
- countrifies
- countrifying
- countrified
Antonyms for countrify
Common opposites include citify.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include deruralize, roughen, uncivilize, decivilize, peasantize, rancidify.
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