city

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. town, municipality; capital, metropolis, megalopolis, cosmopolis; city-state, burg (inf.), big town (inf.). See abode.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

Syn. urban, metropolitan, civil, civic; see municipal , urban 2 .

n.

Syn. town, municipality, borough, burg*, capital, megalopolis, metropolis, provincial town, county town, county seat, trading center, inner city, downtown, shopping center, shopping district, business district, financial district, urban place, urban center, incorporated town, metropolitan area, township, port, conurbation, urban sprawl, asphalt jungle*; see also center 2 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

metropolis, municipality, megalopolis, town, *burg, downtown, suburb, urban complex, boomtown, community, asphalt jungle, urban sprawl, capital, borough. ''A herding region.''—Elbert Hubbard. ''A human zoo.''—Desmond Morris. ''A stone for-est.''—John Priestly. ''The centre of a thousand trades.''—William Cowper. ''Millions of people being lonesome together.''— Henry Thoreau.

WORD FIND

• districts: ward, business district, residential district, ghetto, slums, tenement district, inner city, *skid row, *red light district, tenderloin, hell's kitchen, Chinatown, Little Italy, barrio, greenbelt

• official: alderman, councilor, mayor

see New York

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) I noun A large and important town: metropolis, municipality. Informal: burg, town. See URBAN. II adjective Of, in, or belonging to a city: metropolitan, municipal, urban. See URBAN.