city

Definition for city

adjective as in metropolitan

Weak matches

burghal, citified, civic, civil, interurban, intraurban, megalopolitan, municipal, urban

noun as in large town

Strongest matches

capital, center, downtown, metropolis, municipality, place, port

Strong matches

borough, burg, conurbation, megalopolis

Weak matches

boom town, metropolitan area, polis, urban place, urbs

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In a post on X, he said that preliminary reports indicated train staff and passengers were at the site of the strike in the city of Shostka, in the Sumy region.

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“No city, no county, no governmental agency is ever ready for a disaster of this magnitude. It’s always going to be chaos.”

From Los Angeles Times

Mark me: In the bombed-out hovels of West Berlin, there was a first drag show to hail the city’s resurrection.

From Salon

On Friday, in Glasgow city centre part of the Broomielaw was closed when a derelict building collapsed at about 18:00.

From BBC

Retained firefighters - predominantly based in rural areas with a lower population density than bigger cities - are on-call emergency responders who live near their local fire station and jump in an appliance when needed.

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