- capital
- center
- downtown
- metropolis
- municipality
- place
- port
- borough
- burg
- conurbation
- megalopolis
- boom town
- metropolitan area
- polis
- urban place
- urbs
On this page you’ll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to city, such as: burghal, citified, civic, civil, interurban, and intraurban.
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Further down the ballot, the left is watching some local primaries closely, to see if they can repeat the breakthroughs they’ve been pulling off in other state races for city and legislative offices.
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- belt
- block
- city
- county
- division
- domain
- dominion
- enclosure
- field
- kingdom
- locality
- neck of the woods
- neighborhood
- parcel
- patch
- plot
- precinct
- principality
- quarter
- section
- sector
- sphere
- square
- state
- stretch
- territory
- township
- tract
- turf
- vicinity
- ward
- zone
- breadths
- compasses
- distances
- expanses
- fields
- operations
- ranges
- sizes
- spaces
- spheres
- stretches
- widths
- city
- concrete jungle
- downtown
- inner city
- mean streets
- metropolis
- municipality
- urban complex
- capital
- city
- club
- concourse
- crossroads
- focal point
- focus
- heart
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- mall
- market
- marketplace
- mart
- meeting place
- metropolis
- nerve center
- plaza
- polestar
- shopping center
- social center
- station
- town
- trading center
- capitals
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- crossroads
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- marts
- meeting places
- metropolises
- nerve centers
- plazas
- polestars
- shopping centers
- social centers
- stations
- towns
- trading centers
- asphalt jungle
- city
- downtown
- inner city
- mean streets
- metropolis
- municipality
- urban complex
- urban sprawl
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Definition of city
as in town
a thickly settled, highly populated area
commuters who drive every day between their homes in the suburbs and their jobs in the city
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metropolis
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municipality
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property, metropolitan
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urban, large town
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townspeople, large town
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town, large town
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place
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conurbation
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metropolitan, property
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center
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Grammar : Adj, noun |
Spell : sit-ee |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɪt i |
Top 10 synonyms for city
Other synonyms for the word city
- boom town
- burghal
- citified
- civic
- civil
- conurbation
- interurban
- intraurban
- megalopolis
- megalopolitan
- metropolitan area
- municipal
- polis
- urban
- urban place
- urbs
Définition of city
Origin :
- early 13c., in medieval usage a cathedral town, but originally «any settlement,» regardless of size (distinction from town is 14c., though in English it always seems to have ranked above borough), from Old French cite «town, city» (10c., Modern French cité), from earlier citet, from Latin civitatem (nominative civitas; in Late Latin sometimes citatem) originally «citizenship, condition or rights of a citizen, membership in the community,» later «community of citizens, state, commonwealth» (used, for instance of the Gaulish tribes), from civis «townsman,» from PIE root *kei- «to lie; bed, couch; homestead; beloved, dear» (see cemetery).
- The sense has been transferred from the inhabitants to the place. The Latin word for «city» was urbs, but a resident was civis. Civitas seems to have replaced urbs as Rome (the ultimate urbs) lost its prestige. Loss of Latin -v- is regular in French in some situations (cf. alleger from alleviare; neige from nivea; jeune from juvenis. A different sound evolution from the Latin word yielded Italian citta, Catalan ciutat, Spanish ciudad, Portuguese cidade.
- Replaced Old English burh (see borough). London is the city from 1550s. As an adjective from c.1300. City hall first recorded 1670s to fight city hall is 1913, American English; city slicker first recorded 1916 (see slick); both American English. City limits is from 1825. The newspaper city desk attested from 1878. Inner city first attested 1968. City state (also city-state) is attested from 1877.
- adj metropolitan
- noun large town
Example sentences :
- From what we had heard, we expected to find you in the city.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- They landed, and with the utmost haste proceeded toward the city.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- The sound disturbed him, bringing premonitions of the city’s unrest.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- All this Robert thought over as he was riding in the cars to the city.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- There is in this city a rag-picker so wealthy that he can afford to drink wine every day.
- Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1. No. 20, August 13, 1870 » by Various
- Since that time, he has been employed as coachman by Uri Gilbert, Esq., of this city.
- Extract from : « Harriet, The Moses of Her People » by Sarah H. Bradford
- I am always thankful to any person that brought me into city of Perth.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- What, then, must be the population of the British empire if the increase in one city was at that rate?
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- I have been in the city to-day, and did not hear a syllable of this.
- Extract from : « Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- In what section of the city did most of the working girls, who had no homes, live?
- Extract from : « Grace Harlowe’s Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
Antonyms for city
- rural
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Citynoun
popular, shortened form for the City of London, the historic core of London where the Roman settlement of Londinium was established
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city, metropolis, urban centernoun
a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
«Ancient Troy was a great city»
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citynoun
an incorporated administrative district established by state charter
«the city raised the tax rate»
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city, metropolisnoun
people living in a large densely populated municipality
«the city voted for Republicans in 1994»
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metropolis, urban center
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List of paraphrases for «city»:
town, ville, ciudad, cities, urban, municipal, shing, municipality, towns, stadt, cité, d.f., cited, linn, quoted, precinct, madinat, metropolis, miasto, miasta, downtown, market, mesto, debtor
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Mayor Ed Murray:
We are involved in a homeless crisis, the like we have not seen since the Great Depression, no city in America can deal with this (by itself).
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James McCarthy:
We were here responding to COVID emergencies without masks, without testing, without vaccines, we were exposed, we eventually exposed our families, many of our members came down with COVID. But we still made the city safe for everybody, and we want to be treated now like these new guests are.
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Rahm Emanuel:
We are not going to be between picking our values of who we are as a welcoming city, and strengthening our police department.
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Vice President John Coates:
We experienced a wonderful Winter Games in Pyeongchang, we saw your Japanese team produce some wonderful performances but now you are the next host city, i think the questions are going to increasingly come, particularly from the 206 national Olympic Committees who want to know about the best arrangements for their athletes.
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Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer:
I stand behind my account which was corroborated by substantial additional evidence. In addition to my contemporaneous journal entry, I told six people about the conversation on the day it occurred, including a lawyer representing the City of Hoboken.
Translations for city
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- ақалақьAbkhaz
- stadAfrikaans
- ከተማAmharic
- مدينةArabic
- шагьарAvaric
- şəhərAzerbaijani
- ҡалаBashkir
- го́радBelarusian
- градBulgarian
- শহর, নগরBengali
- གྲོང་ཁྱེར་, རྒྱལ་སTibetan Standard
- keodedoù, kêr, keoded, kêrioùBreton
- ciutatCatalan, Valencian
- гӏалаChechen
- město, velkoměstoCzech
- градъOld Church Slavonic, Church Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- хулаChuvash
- caer, dinasWelsh
- byDanish
- StadtGerman
- ޝަހަރުDivehi
- πόληGreek
- civito, urboEsperanto
- urbe, ciudadSpanish
- linnEstonian
- hiriBasque
- شهرPersian
- kaupunkiFinnish
- býurFaroese
- cité, villeFrench
- stêdWestern Frisian
- cathair, baile mórIrish
- baile mòr, dùnScottish Gaelic
- cidadeGalician
- távaGuaraní
- નગર, શહેરGujarati
- ard-valleyManx
- birniHausa
- עִירHebrew
- नगर, शहरHindi
- vilHaitian Creole
- városHungarian
- քաղաքArmenian
- citateInterlingua
- kotaIndonesian
- ꇓꈓNuosu
- urbo, civitoIdo
- borgIcelandic
- cittàItalian
- 町, 都市, 都会Japanese
- khuthaJavanese
- ქალაქიGeorgian
- қалаKazakh
- ទីក្រុង, បុរីKhmer
- ನಗರKannada
- 시내, 도시, 市內, 都市Korean
- شارKurdish
- шаарKyrgyz
- civitas, urbs, urbisLatin
- StadLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ນະຄອນ, ທານີ, ຊຽງ, ເມືອງLao
- miestasLithuanian
- pilsēta, lielpilsētaLatvian
- tāone, tāone nuiMāori
- градMacedonian
- നഗരംMalayalam
- хотMongolian
- शहर, नगरMarathi
- bandar raya, bandar, kotaMalay
- beltMaltese
- မြို့Burmese
- stadDutch
- byNorwegian
- kin haalʼá, kin nitsaago dah naazhjaaʼígííNavajo, Navaho
- ciutatOccitan
- ଚ୍ହିOriya
- горӕт, сахарOssetian, Ossetic
- ਸ਼ਹਿਰPanjabi, Punjabi
- miastoPolish
- ښارPashto, Pushto
- cidade, urbePortuguese
- llaqtaQuechua
- citadRomansh
- urbe, oraș, cetateRomanian
- го́род, градRussian
- नगरSanskrit
- град, gradSerbo-Croatian
- නගරයSinhala, Sinhalese
- mestoSlovak
- méstoSlovene
- magaaloSomali
- qytetAlbanian
- stadSwedish
- mjiSwahili
- நகரம்Tamil
- నగరంTelugu
- шаҳрTajik
- กรุง, นคร, เมืองThai
- ከተማTigrinya
- şäherTurkmen
- syudad, lungsodTagalog
- şehir, kentTurkish
- шәһәр, калаTatar
- شەھەرUyghur, Uighur
- мі́стоUkrainian
- شہر, نگرUrdu
- shaharUzbek
- thành, thành phố, phố, 城埔Vietnamese
- zifVolapük
- dëkkWolof
- idolophuXhosa
- שטאָטYiddish
- ìlúYoruba
- ithawiniZulu
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