downtown

Synonyms for downtown

adj city

noun. large town

noun. large town

noun. urban area

noun. city center

noun. major city

1835, from down (adv.) + town. The notion is of suburbs built on heights around a city.

He did not know where to go, but unconsciously his steps took him downtown.

Then he kept on downtown toward the office of Carter, Rand & Seagraves.

I remembered one minute I was downtown New York, looking across the river.

A windy day, one would have said in the dark channels of downtown ways.

Out of the downtown traffic the three machines increased their speed.

You mend the car and bring it downtown when you get it mended.

They were having the Crowd to dinner, downtown, that evening.

I can't reach my girl because she's downtown somewheres for the afternoon with Cora.

But now he seemed to find the downtown trip arduous, even hazardous.

"I've ordered a motor to take me downtown," he explained, as he pulled on his gloves.