City ˈsɪti World’s Beautiful Town Cathedral Noun Bre

• the city centre
• one of the world’s most beautiful cities
• a major city
• the country’s capital city

city

1. a large and important town
• see also inner city
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/inner-city
• the city centre
• one of the world’s most beautiful cities
• a major city
• the country’s capital city
• Mexico City
• Manchester City Football Club
2. a town that has been given special rights by a king or queen, usually one that has a cathedral
• the city of York
3. a town that has been given special rights by the state government
4. all the people who live in a city
• The city turned out to welcome the victorious team home.
5. Britain’s financial and business centre, in the oldest part of London
• See related entries: Economy
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/economy/city
• a City stockbroker
• What is the City's reaction to the cut in interest rates?
6. used after other nouns to say that a place is full of a particular thing
• It's not exactly fun city here is it?
• cardboard city (= full of people living in cardboard boxes because they have nowhere else to live)
7. (in Britain) an honour that is given to somebody by a city as a reward for work they have done

Extra Examples

• Bonn is Oxford’s twin city.
• Her native city is Tokyo.
• Parking is difficult in the city centre.
• Rome is one of the great cities of the world.
• The building runs the length of a city block.
• The city grew rapidly in the 19th century.
• There’s a park just outside the city.
• We live in a big city.
• the host city for the Olympic Games
• the lost city of Atlantis
• the old walled city of Cartagena
• the sister cities of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Hiroshima, Japan
• Ely is a cathedral city in East Cambridgeshire.
• It is one of the world’s most beautiful cities.
• Mexico City has a population of more than 20 million people.
• The city of Boston is one of America’s most historic cities.

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Old French cite, from Latin civitas, from civis ‘citizen’. Originally denoting a town, and often used as a Latin equivalent to Old English burh ‘borough’, the term was later applied to foreign and ancient cities and to the more important English boroughs. The connection between city and cathedral grew up under the Norman kings, as the episcopal sees (many had been established in villages) were removed to the chief borough of the diocese.