city

  • 51city — (Voz inglesa.) ► sustantivo femenino Barrio central de una ciudad en el que se concentra la actividad financiera y administrativa: ■ la población de la city merma de año en año. * * * (voz inglesa) ► URBANISMO Corazón financiero, comercial y… …

    Enciclopedia Universal

  • 52city — / sIti/ noun 1 (C) a large important town, especially one with a cathedral: New York City | a capital city | city dweller (=someone who lives in a city) 2 the people who live in a city: The city has been living in fear since last week s… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 53city — /ˈsɪti / (say sitee) noun (plural cities) 1. a. a large or important town; a town so nominated. b. an area within a large and extended city which has been nominated as a city even though it is essentially suburban as the City of Parramatta within …

  • 54city —    by Richard G. Smith   While a great deal has been written about architecture by poststructuralists such as Derrida, relatively little has been written about cities and urbanism. This is also true in the writings of Baudrillard, who with the… …

    The Baudrillard dictionary

  • 55city*/*/*/ — [ˈsɪti] noun [C] 1) a large important town an industrial city[/ex] Tokyo is Japan s capital city (= most important city).[/ex] 2) the institutions of a city The city has agreed to pay for the rebuilding.[/ex] the city hospital[/ex] • ■ A city is… …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 56City FM — rajouter logo de City FM Création dans les années 2000 Disparition Le jeudi 27 juin 2008 à 18h Slogan « City FM au coeur de la citer » Langue Français Pays  Belgique …

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  • 57city — cit•y [[t]ˈsɪt i[/t]] n. pl. cit•ies 1) gov a large or important town 2) gov (in the U.S.) an incorporated municipality, usu. governed by a mayor and council 3) gov the inhabitants of a city collectively: The entire city is celebrating[/ex] 4)… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 58city — Synonyms and related words: Bowery, Chinatown, East End, East Side, Kreis, Little Hungary, Little Italy, Stadt, West End, West Side, archbishopric, archdiocese, arrondissement, bailiwick, banlieue, barrio, bishopric, black ghetto, blighted area,… …

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  • 59city — It was not necessarily the size of its population or its area that made the distinction in Palestine between a city and a village. What mattered was the wall which was often doubled, with houses built between the outer and the inner wall, while… …

    Dictionary of the Bible

  • 60city — noun (plural cities) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English citie large or small town, from Anglo French cité, from Medieval Latin civitat , civitas, from Latin, citizenship, state, city of Rome, from civis citizen more at hind Date:… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary