urbanizar
Portuguese, verb/uʁ.ba.niˈza(ʁ)/
urbanizar is spelled U-R-B-A-N-I-Z-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 84,550th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Urbanizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to develop (bring urban infrastructure to an area)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “tornar urbano; civilizar”.
What does urbanizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to develop (bring urban infrastructure to an area)
- 2
to urbanize (make something more urban in character)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. tornar urbano; civilizar 2. polir 3. realizar a urbanização de
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of urbanizar
- urbanizo first-person present singular
- urbanizei first-person preterite singular
- urbanizado participle past
- urbanizares infinitive second-person singular
- urbanizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- urbanizardes infinitive plural second-person
- urbanizarem infinitive plural third-person
- urbanizando gerund
- urbanizados masculine participle past
- urbanizada feminine participle past
- urbanizadas feminine participle past
- urbanizas indicative present second-person
- urbaniza indicative present singular
- urbanizamos first-person indicative plural
- urbanizais indicative plural present
- urbanizam indicative plural present
- urbanizava first-person imperfect indicative
- urbanizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce urbanizar?
- Brazil /uʁ.ba.niˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [uɦ.ba.niˈza(h)]
- /uɾ.ba.niˈza(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to urbanizar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is urbanizar in Portuguese?
urbanizar appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).