city

Etymology
From, from , from , in  "citizenry", derived from , ultimately from. Cognate with 🇨🇬. See. . Mostly displaced native, whence.

Noun

 * 1) A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.
 * 2)  A settlement granted special status by royal charter or letters patent; traditionally, a settlement with a cathedral regardless of size.
 * 3)  The central business district; downtown.
 * 4)  A large amount of something.
 * 1)  A settlement granted special status by royal charter or letters patent; traditionally, a settlement with a cathedral regardless of size.
 * 2)  The central business district; downtown.
 * 3)  A large amount of something.
 * 1)  The central business district; downtown.
 * 2)  A large amount of something.
 * 1)  The central business district; downtown.
 * 2)  A large amount of something.
 * 1)  A large amount of something.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: ақалақь
 * Afrikaans:
 * Ahom: 𑜋𑜦𑜧
 * Akkadian: 𒌷
 * Albanian:
 * Ambonese Malay: kota
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: بَلَد
 * Gulf Arabic: مَدينَة
 * Moroccan Arabic: مدِينَة
 * Aragonese: ziudá
 * Aramaic:
 * Hebrew: מְדִינְתָּא, כַּרְכָּא
 * Syriac: ܡܕܼܝܼܢܬܿܵܐ, ܟܿܲܪܟܿܵܐ
 * Argobba: ኸተም
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian:
 * Assamese: নগৰ, চহৰ
 * Asturian:
 * Avar: шагьар
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: ҡала
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: го́рад, ме́ста
 * Bengali: ,
 * Breton: keoded, keodedoù, ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Buryat: хото
 * Carpathian Rusyn: мі́сто
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: dakbayan, siyudad
 * Chamicuro: chi'nashtalichi
 * Chechen: гӏала
 * Chichewa: mzinda
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 城市
 * Dungan: чыншы, чын, шы, чынпу
 * Eastern Min: 城市
 * Hakka: 城市
 * Hokkien: ,
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Wu: 城市
 * Chuvash: хула
 * Coptic: ⲃⲁⲕⲓ
 * Cornish: cita
 * Corsican: cità
 * Crimean Tatar: şeer
 * Czech: ,
 * Dalmatian: cituot
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: ޝަހަރު
 * Dongxiang: baza
 * Dutch:
 * East Central German: Stoadt
 * Eastern Mari: ола
 * Egyptian:
 * Erzya: ош
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Extremaduran: ciá
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , grande-ville
 * Old French: cité
 * Friulian: citât
 * Galician:
 * Gallurese: cittai, zittai
 * Ge'ez: ሀገር
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πόλις, ἄστυ
 * Guaraní:
 * Gujarati: ,
 * Haitian Creole: vil
 * Hausa:
 * Hawaiian: kūlanakauhale
 * Hebrew:
 * Hiligaynon: dakbanwa
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: xtat
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: citate
 * Irish:, baile mór
 * Istriot: sità
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , (e.g. 町で - "in the city"),
 * Javanese: kutha
 * Kabardian:
 * Kalmyk: балһсн
 * Kannada:
 * Kapampangan: lakanbalen
 * Karachay-Balkar: шахар
 * Karelian: linna
 * Kashubian: miasto
 * Kazakh:, шаһар
 * Khakas: саар, город
 * Khmer: ទីក្រុង, ,
 * Komi-Permyak: кар
 * Komi-Zyrian: кар
 * Konkani: xar
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kumyk: шагьар
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kusunda: səhər
 * Kyrgyz:, ,
 * Ladin: zità
 * Lao: ຊຽງ, ທານີ,, ນະຄອນ
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: (or lielpilsēta if the distinction between city and town is important)
 * Leonese: ciudá
 * Ligurian: çitæ, çittæ
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lü: ᦵᦙᦲᧂ, ᨾᩮᩥ᩠ᨦ, ᦵᦞᦇ, ᦵᦋᧂ
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: град
 * Malagasy: ,
 * Malay:, ,
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese:
 * Manchu: ᡥᠣᡨᠣᠨ, ᡥᡝᠴᡝᠨ
 * Manx: ard-valley, caayr
 * Maori:, tāone nui
 * Marathi:, नगर
 * Maricopa: vakpaly
 * Mehri: رحبيت
 * Middle English: cite
 * Moksha: ош
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠬᠣᠲᠠ
 * Nahuatl:
 * Navajo: kin nitsaago dah naazhjaaʼígíí, kin haalʼá
 * Nepali:
 * North Frisian: steed
 * Northern Thai:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: by
 * Nubian:
 * Nobiin: diffi (ⲇⲓⲫⲫⲓ, ديفي)
 * Old Nubian: ⲇⲡ̅ⲡ
 * Nuosu: ꇓꈓ
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:, ମହାନଗର, ସହର
 * Ojibwe: gichi-oodena
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: градъ, мѣсто
 * Old East Slavic: градъ, мѣсто, городъ
 * Old English: burg
 * Old Galician-Portuguese: cidade
 * Oromo: magaalaa
 * Ossetian: сахар, горӕт
 * Ottoman Turkish: كنت, شهر
 * Pali: nagara
 * Papiamentu: siudat
 * Pashto:
 * Pela: mjuʔ⁵⁵
 * Pennsylvania German: Schtadt, Schtedt
 * Persian:
 * Classical Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Phoenician: 𐤀𐤄𐤋
 * Piedmontese: sità
 * Plautdietsch: Grootstaut, Staut
 * Polabian: vaikă
 * Polish:
 * Pontic Greek: πολιτεία
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi:
 * Quechua:
 * Romagnol: zitê
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Romansch: citad
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sassarese: ziddai
 * Saterland Frisian: Stääd
 * Scots: ceity, ceety
 * Scottish Gaelic: baile mòr, dùn
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гра̑д
 * Roman:
 * Shor: тура
 * Sicilian: ,
 * Silesian: miasto
 * Sinhalese:
 * Skolt Sami: gåårad, lâ´nn
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: město
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Southern Altai: кала
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sranan Tongo: foto
 * Sumerian: 𒌷
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠘꠉꠞ
 * Tagalog:, syudad
 * Tajik:
 * Talysh: şəhr
 * Tamil:
 * Taos: plòsoʼóna
 * Tarifit: tamdint, tandint
 * Tatar: ,
 * Tausug: daira
 * Telugu:
 * Tetum: sidade
 * Thai:, , ,
 * Tibetan: གྲོང་ཁྱེར, རྒྱལ་ས
 * Tigrinya: ከተማ
 * Tocharian B: rīye
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: şäher
 * Tuvan: хоорай
 * Udmurt: кар
 * Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎗
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: شَہَر, نَگَر
 * Uyghur: شەھەر
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian:, çità
 * Vietnamese: (城埔),  (城),,  (都市)
 * Volapük:
 * Võro: liin
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Frisian:
 * Western Panjabi: ,
 * Wolof:
 * Xhosa: idolophu
 * Yagnobi: шаҳр
 * Yakut: куорат
 * Yiddish: שטאָט
 * Yoruba: ìlú
 * Yup'ik: nunarpak
 * Zazaki: ,
 * Zhuang: si, hawsingz, singz
 * Zulu: ithawini


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: ,

Etymology
From

Derived terms

 * compounds

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  (financial district of a city)

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) 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.

Usage notes

 *  is used for the commercial centre of suburbs and small or medium-sized towns.