citified
If you're citified, you're comfortable and familiar with being in a city. When your cousin travels from North Dakota to visit you in Chicago, she might take one look at you and declare you totally citified.
The adjective citified is often used as a put-down, a way to criticize someone for being too much a city person. If your expertise includes hailing cabs and dodging pedestrians on the sidewalk, your attempts to master cattle ranching or piloting a lobster boat might inspire the locals to call you citified. A more complimentary word to use would be urbane, which describes someone who's an elegant and refined city person.
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being or having the customs or manners or dress of a city person
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Vocabulary lists containing citified
Crowded by his parents and eight siblings in a New York City apartment, twelve-year-old Sam Gribley runs away to live by himself on his great-grandfather's abandoned farm in the Catskill Mountains.
During the Great Depression, Joey and Mary Alice Dowdel spend summers with their eccentric and adventurous grandmother.
Eighteen-year-old Hằng makes a difficult journey to America to find the brother from whom she was separated during the Vietnam War.