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- Dictionarycit·y/ˈsidē/
noun
- 1. a large town: "one of Italy's most beautiful cities"
- 2. short for City of London
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The meaning of CITY is an inhabited place of greater size, population, or importance than a town or village. How to use city in a sentence.
[1] [2] In a narrower sense, a city can be defined as a permanent and densely populated place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. [3] Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication.
noun [ C ] uk / ˈsɪt.i / us / ˈsɪt̬.i / city noun [C] (TOWN) Add to word list. A1. a large town: Many of the world's cities have populations of more than five million. capital city Wellington is the capital city (= centre of government) of New Zealand. any town in the UK that has a cathedral (= large, important church):
A city is an area in which a large number of people live fairly close together. Cities usually have their own separate governments and systems for maintaining and providing utilities and transportation.
10 meanings: 1. any large town or populous place 2. (in Britain) a large town that has received this title from the Crown:.... Click for more definitions.
CITY meaning: 1. a large town: 2. any town in the UK that has a cathedral (= large, important church): 3. the…. Learn more.
5 days ago · City, relatively permanent and highly organized centre of population, of greater size or importance than a town or village. The name city is given to certain urban communities by virtue of some legal or conventional distinction that can vary between regions or nations.
Definition of city noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A1 [ C ] a large town: the city of Boston. the city centre. Fewer examples. a city with 10 million inhabitants. Try to avoid the city centre. We live on opposite sides of the city. The bomb destroyed several office buildings in the city. Thousands of tourists are drawn to the city every year. the City UK.
CITY meaning: 1 : a place where people live that is larger or more important than a town an area where many people live and work; 2 : the people in a city usually singular
