- 1(of an area, a country, etc.) having a lot of towns, streets, factories, etc. rather than countryside
- 2(of people) living and working in towns and cities rather than in the country an increasingly urbanized society
NAmE//ˌərbənəˈzeɪʃn//
noun [uncountable]See urbanized in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: urbanized