city
US: /ˈsɪti/
UK: /sˈɪti/
UK: /sˈɪti/
English Vietnamese dictionary
city /'siti/
- danh từ
- thành phố, thành thị, đô thị
- dân thành thị
- (the City) trung tâm thương nghiệp và tài chính thành phố Luân-đôn
- (định ngữ) (thuộc) thành phố
- (City) (định ngữ) a City man người kinh doanh, a City article bài báo bàn về tài chính và thương nghiệp, City editor người biên tập phụ trách tin tức về tài chính (trong một tờ báo)
- Celestial City
- Heavenly City
- City of God
- thiên đường
- city state
- thành phố độc lập và có chủ quyền (như một nước)
- City of God
- Heavenly City
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun (plural cities)
1 [C] a large and important town: We live ten minutes from the city centre by bus. + one of the world's most beautiful cities + Mexico City + Manchester City Football Club
See also -
2 [C] (BrE) a town that has been given special rights by a king or queen, usually one that has a CATHEDRAL: the city of York
3 [C] (AmE) a town that has been given special rights by the state government
4 [sing.+sing./pl. v.] all the people who live in a city: The city turned out to welcome the victorious team home.
5 (the City) [sing.] (BrE) Britain's financial and business centre, in the oldest part of London: a City stockbroker + What is the City's reaction to the cut in interest rates?
6 [U] (informal) 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)
Idioms see FREEDOM
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
metropolis, municipality, borough, burgh; conurbation, megalopolis; Brit urban district; see, diocese, bishopric; New Zealand urban area; Colloq town, US burg, big apple:
We gave up our flat in the city and moved to the country.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
big, large, major | small | great
Rome is one of the great cities of the world.
| ancient, historic, old | beautiful | industrial | cosmopolitan | coastal | home, native
Her native city is Tokyo.
| capital | provincial | cathedral, university | walled
the old walled city of York
| twin
Bonn is Oxford's twin city.
VERB + CITY
build, found
CITY + VERB
grow
The city grew rapidly in the nineteenth century.
| flourish
CITY + NOUN
dweller | centre, street
Parking is difficult in the city centre.
| council | life
PREP.
in a/the ~
We live in a big city.
| outside a/the ~
There's a park just outside the city.
PHRASES
the centre/middle/heart of a city, the edge/outskirts of a city
Concise English dictionary
cities'sɪtɪ
noun
+a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
+an incorporated administrative district established by state charter
+people living in a large densely populated municipality
