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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English cite, from Old French cite, from Late Latin cīvitātem (“city”), in Classical Latin "citizenry", derived from cīvis (“fellow-citizen”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“lie down; settle”). Cognate with Old English hīwan pl (“members of one's household, servants”). See hewe. Doublet of civitas. Mostly displaced native Old English burg, whence Modern English borough.
Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ˈsɪti/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [ˈsɪtʰiː]
Audio (UK): (file) - (Northern England, Conservative RP) IPA(key): /sɪtɪ/
- (US, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈsɪti/, [ˈsɪɾi]
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file)
- Hyphenation: ci‧ty
- Rhymes: -ɪti
Noun
[edit]city (plural cities)
- A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.
- São Paulo is the largest city in South America.
- c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 147, column 2:
- Ah, knovv you not the Citie fauours them, / And they haue troupes of Souldiers at their beck?
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
- One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
- 2020 July 15, Mike Brown talks to Paul Clifton, “Leading London's "hidden heroes"”, in Rail, page 42:
- All our stations have changed. We have to constrain numbers. We have to mandate face coverings. These are massive changes in what is a public transport city. This is not a car city.
- (UK) A settlement granted special status by royal charter or letters patent; traditionally, a settlement with a cathedral regardless of size.
- 1976, Cornelius P. Darcy, The Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Lancashire, 1760-1860, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 20:
- Manchester, incorporated in 1838, was made the centre of a bishopric in 1847 and became a city in 1853. Liverpool was transformed into a city by Royal Charter when the new diocese of Liverpool was created in 1880.
- 2014, Graham Rutt, Cycling Britain's Cathedrals Volume 1, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 307:
- St Davids itself is the smallest city in Great Britain, with a population of less than 2,000.
- (Australia) The central business district; downtown.
- I'm going into the city today to do some shopping.
- (slang) A large amount of something (used after the noun).
- It’s video game city in here!
Hypernyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- 15-minute city
- agrocity
- alpha city
- anticity
- beta city
- capital city
- caravan city
- cardboard city
- cathedral city
- central city
- cidiot
- citaye
- citied
- citification
- citify
- citizen
- city administrator
- city and county
- city banker
- city block
- citybound
- city boy
- city break
- city-builder
- city-building game
- city bus
- citybus
- city center
- city centre
- citycentric
- city chicken
- city clerk
- city council
- city desk
- city district
- city-dweller
- city dweller
- city father
- cityful
- city gent
- city girl
- city hall
- cityhood
- cityish
- cityite
- cityless
- city lights
- citylike
- city limit(s)
- city line
- city man
- cityman
- city manager
- city map
- citymate
- cityness
- City of Los Angeles
- city of refuge
- city of seven hills
- city on a hill
- city planning
- city pop
- city proper
- city room
- cityscape
- cityship
- cityside
- city sim
- city simulator
- city slicker
- city-state
- city state
- city symphony
- city technology college
- City Terrace
- city titty
- city upon a hill
- city wall
- cityward
- citywards
- city water
- citywear
- citywide
- closed city
- control city
- core city
- cosmological city
- countercity
- county-level city
- cross-city
- cybercity
- donut city
- doughnut city
- eco-city
- ecocity
- edge city
- fat city
- federal city
- first city
- free city
- freedom of the city
- free imperial city
- free of the city
- gamma city
- garden city
- GeoCity
- gigabit city
- gigacity
- Hanseatic city
- hero city
- hidden city
- holy city
- host city
- independent city
- inner city, inner-city
- intercity
- intracity
- Jade City
- key to the city
- megacity
- metropolitan city
- microcity
- million city
- minicity
- monocity
- noncity
- open city
- port city
- prefecture-level city
- principal city
- pseudo-city code
- sanctuary city
- satellite city
- second city
- sister city
- smart city
- sponge city
- star city
- star-city
- subcity
- supercity
- Swea City
- the city
- the city of a thousand windows
- Tricity
- twin city
- uncity
- undercity
Place names ending in City
- Adams City
- Alabama City
- Aladdin City
- Alberta City
- Alexander City
- Amador City
- Amelia City
- Archer City
- Arkansas City
- Ashland City
- Atlantic City
- Bay City
- Beaver City
- Belize City
- Bibb City
- Big Bear City
- Bluff City
- Boise City
- Border City
- Bow City
- Bradshaw City
- Brandy City
- Branson City
- Brigham City
- Buffalo City
- Bullhead City
- Butte City
- Cactus City
- California City
- Cañon City
- Canyon City
- Capitol City
- Cascade City
- Cathedral City
- Cave City
- Center City
- Central City
- Charles City
- Cherokee City
- Circle City
- City of Industry
- Clair-Mel City
- Clay City
- Coal City
- Cole City
- Coleman City
- College City
- Colorado City
- Columbia City
- Commerce City
- Connected City
- Contention City
- Cooper City
- Copper City
- Crescent City
- Cross City
- Crystal City
- Culver City
- Dade City
- Dain City
- Dakota City
- Dallas City
- Daly City
- Date City
- David City
- Dawson City
- Deem City
- Delaware City
- Diamond City
- Dickerson City
- Dodge City
- Dominion City
- Douglas City
- Duke City
- Duncan City
- Elk City
- Ellicott City
- Emory City
- Everglades City
- Farmer City
- Floral City
- Florida City
- Forbidden City
- Ford City
- Forest City
- Forrest City
- Foster City
- Frisco City
- Frog City
- Garden City
- Gary City
- Gibson City
- GIFT City
- Gila City
- Gin City
- Granite City
- Grove City
- Haines City
- Hall City
- Haltom City
- Hamilton City
- Harbor City
- Harris City
- Hartford City
- Highland City
- Highway City
- Hill City
- Hobson City
- Holy City
- Holy Cross City
- Huachuca City
- Ice City
- Intercession City
- Iowa City
- Iretaba City
- Iron City
- Ivy City
- Jacob City
- Jaeger City
- Jefferson City
- Jersey City
- Jewett City
- Johnson City
- Joseph City
- Junction City
- Kansas City
- Kaw City
- Kenneth City
- Kerr City
- Kettleman City
- King City
- Knox City
- Lagoon City
- Lake City
- Lake Havasu City
- Lardeau City
- Leisure City
- Lincoln City
- Little Lake City
- Long Island City
- Lost City
- Loup City
- Lumber City
- Luxembourg City
- Marin City
- Mexico City
- Midland City
- Midway City
- Miles City
- Minto City
- Mission City
- Missouri City
- Mojave City
- Mokelumne City
- Mono City
- Montgomery City
- Morgan City
- Motor City
- Mound City
- Mountain City
- Moyie City
- Muck City
- Myakka City
- National City
- Nebraska City
- Ness City
- Nevada City
- New York City
- Nitrate City
- Ocean City
- Ohio City
- Oklahoma City
- Olive City
- Omineca City
- Orange City
- Orchard City
- Oregon City
- Oro City
- Osage City
- Palm City
- Panama City
- Panamint City
- Panorama City
- Pawnee City
- Peachtree City
- Pebble City
- Pecan City
- Pell City
- Phenix City
- Pinal City
- Pincher City
- Pine City
- Plant City
- Plaster City
- Polk City
- Ponca City
- Poudre City
- Quebec City
- Queen City
- Quezon City
- Rainbow City
- Raisin City
- Rapid City
- Ray City
- Redwood City
- Reece City
- Reed City
- Rio Grande City
- Rockwell City
- Rogers City
- Sac City
- Sale City
- Salt Lake City
- Salton City
- Sampson City
- Sand City
- San Joaquin City
- Sardis City
- Scant City
- Scott City
- Shake City
- Sierra City
- Silver City
- Similkameen City
- Sioux City
- Slab City
- Spar City
- Sparkle City
- Spicer City
- Star City
- Stirling City
- St. James City
- Strong City
- Studio City
- Sugar City
- Suisun City
- Sulphur City
- Sun City
- Surf City
- Tahoe City
- Tate City
- Tawas City
- Telegraph City
- Tell City
- Temple City
- Texas City
- Tin City
- Tipp City
- Traverse City
- Tuba City
- Tunnel City
- Twin City
- Union City
- University City
- Uranium City
- Valley City
- Vatican City
- Villa City
- Volcanic City
- Vulture City
- Webster City
- West Valley City
- White City
- Wolfe City
- Yazoo City
- Y City
- Yuba City
- Zama City
- Zip City
English terms starting with “city”
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]large settlement
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large amount of something
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- "city" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 55.
Anagrams
[edit]Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]city
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]city
- (anglicism) Synonym of liikekeskusta (“central business district”)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of city (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | city | cityt | |
genitive | cityn | cityjen | |
partitive | cityä | cityjä | |
illative | cityyn | cityihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | city | cityt | |
accusative | nom. | city | cityt |
gen. | cityn | ||
genitive | cityn | cityjen | |
partitive | cityä | cityjä | |
inessive | cityssä | cityissä | |
elative | citystä | cityistä | |
illative | cityyn | cityihin | |
adessive | cityllä | cityillä | |
ablative | cityltä | cityiltä | |
allative | citylle | cityille | |
essive | citynä | cityinä | |
translative | cityksi | cityiksi | |
abessive | cityttä | cityittä | |
instructive | — | cityin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]- compounds
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English city. Doublet of città.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]city f (invariable)
- city (financial district of a city)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ city in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]city
- Alternative form of cite
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]city n
- inner city, the commercial centre of a medium-sized or larger city
- Lite närmare city, i närheten av konstmuseet, ligger Norrköpings mest attraktiva lägenheter.
- A little closer to the town centre, next to the art museum, you'll find Norrköping's most attractive apartments.
- Det finns mycket att förbättra i vårt city.
- There are many things that need improvement in our inner city.
- Lite närmare city, i närheten av konstmuseet, ligger Norrköpings mest attraktiva lägenheter.
Usage notes
[edit]- centrum is used for the commercial centre of suburbs and small or medium-sized towns.
Synonyms
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- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Late Latin
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- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English doublets
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɪti
- Rhymes:English/ɪti/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
- British English
- Australian English
- English slang
- en:Places
- en:Cities
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech non-lemma forms
- Czech noun forms
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms spelled with C
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- Italian terms borrowed from English
- Italian unadapted borrowings from English
- Italian terms derived from English
- Italian doublets
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/iti
- Rhymes:Italian/iti/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian terms spelled with Y
- Italian feminine nouns
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Swedish terms borrowed from English
- Swedish terms derived from English
- Swedish terms with audio links
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish neuter nouns