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English noun: city

1. city (location) a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts


SamplesAncient Troy was a great city.


Synonymsmetropolis, urban center


Broader (hypernym)municipality


Narrower (hyponym)national capital, provincial capital, state capital


Instance hyponym's Gravenhage, Aachen, Aalborg, Aarhus, Abadan, Aberdeen, Abidjan, Abilene, Acapulco, Acapulco de Juarez, Adalia, Adana, Aden, Adrianople, Adrianopolis, Agra, Aix-la-Chapelle, Akaba, Aken, Akron, Al Aqabah, Al Ladhiqiyah, Al Madinah, Al-Hudaydah, Al-Mukalla, Alborg, Albuquerque, Alep, Aleppo, Alexandria, Allentown, Alma-Ata, Almaty, Amarillo, Anaheim, Anchorage, Ann Arbor, Annaba, Antalya, Antofagasta, Antwerp, Antwerpen, Anvers, Apeldoorn, Aqaba, Aquila, Aquila degli Abruzzi, Arequipa, Argos, Arhus, Ariana, Arlington, Arnhem, Asahikawa, Ashur, Aspadana, Aspinwall, Assouan, Assuan, Assur, Astrakhan, Asur, Aswan, Atlantic City, Auckland, Augusta, Az Zarqa, Babylon, Bahia Blanca, Bakersfield, Bale, Baltimore, Bam, Bandung, Banff, Bangalore, Barcelona, Bari, Barranquilla, Basel, Basia, Basle, Basra, Bayonne, Beaumont, Beckley, Beira, Belem, Belo Horizonte, Benghazi, Bergen, Berkeley, Beverly Hills, Billings, Binghamton, Birmingham, Birmingham, Blantyre, Blida, Bloemfontein, Bologna, Bolzano, Bombay, Bonn, Bordeaux, Braga, Brasov, Braunschweig, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Brescia, Breslau, Brest, Bridgeport, Brighton, Brindisi, Bristol, Brno, Bromberg, Brownsville, Bruges, Brummagem, Brunn, Brunswick, Brusa, Buffalo, Bulawayo, Burlington, Bursa, Bydgoszcz, Byzantium, Cadiz, Calcutta, Calgary, Cali, Caloocan, Cambridge, Cambridge, Camden, Campeche, Cancun, Cannes, Canton, Cape Town, Cartagena, Cartagena, Casablanca, Casper, Cebu, Cebu City, Cedar Rapids, Changan, Charleroi, Charleston, Charlotte, Chattanooga, Chelyabinsk, Chemnitz, Chemulpo, Chennai, Cherepovets, Chernobyl, Chester, Chicago, Chihuahua, Chittagong, Chongqing, Christchurch, Chula Vista, Chungking, Cincinnati, Citta del Vaticano, City of Bridges, City of Brotherly Love, City of the Angels, Ciudad Bolivar, Ciudad Juarez, Ciudad Victoria, Clarksburg, Cleveland, Cologne, Colon, Colorado Springs, Colossae, Columbus, Concepcion, Constantina, Constantine, Constantinople, Cordoba, Cordoba, Cordova, Cordova, Corinth, Cork, Corpus Christi, Cotonou, Coventry, Cracow, Cremona, Culiacan, Cumana, Curitiba, Czestochowa, Dairen, Dalian, Dallas, Danzig, Daugavpils, Davenport, Dayton, Decatur, Delhi, Delphi, Den Haag, Detroit, Dijon, Dneprodzerzhinsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Dobrich, Dodoma, Donetsk, Donetske, Dortmund, Douala, Dresden, Dubai, Dubrovnik, Duluth, Durango, Durazzo, Durban, Durham, Durres, Dusseldorf, Edirne, Ehadhamen, Eindhoven, El Giza, El Iskandriyah, El Paso, El-Aksur, Elisabethville, Ephesus, Erie, Esfahan, Espoo, Essen, Eugene, Evansville, Faisalabad, Fargo, Feliz Lusitania, Fengtien, Ferrara, Fes, Fez, Firenze, Flint, Florence, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Wayne, Fort Worth, Frankfort, Frankfurt, Frankfurt on the Main, Fresno, Fukuoka, Gafsa, Galway, Gand, Garland, Gary, Gateway to the West, Gdansk, Geneva, Geneve, Genf, Genoa, Genova, Gent, Ghent, Giza, Gizeh, Glasgow, Gloucester, Goeteborg, Goma, Gomel, Gomorrah, Gomorrha, Gorki, Gorkiy, Gorky, Goteborg, Gothenburg, Governador Valadares, Granada, Grand Rapids, Graz, Greater New York, Green Bay, Greensboro, Greenville, Grenoble, Grozny, Groznyy, Guadalajara, Guangzhou, Guantanamo, Guayaquil, Gulu, Haifa, Haiphong, Halab, Halicarnassus, Halle, Halle-an-der-Saale, Hamburg, Hamilton, Hamilton, Hangchow, Hangzhou, Hannover, Hanover, Hargeisa, Hefa, Herat, Herculaneum, Hermosillo, Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza, Hiroshima, Ho Chi Minh City, Hodeida, Hohhot, Homel, Homyel, Hong Kong, Houston, Hsian, Huambo, Hull, Huntington, Huntsville, Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Ibadan, Ilion, Ilium, Incheon, Inchon, Independence, Innsbruck, Isfahan, Istanbul, Izmir, Jabalpur, Jacksonville, Jaffa, Jed'dah, Jeddah, Jerez, Jerez de la Frontera, Jersey City, Jidda, Jiddah, Jinja, Joao Pessoa, Johannesburg, Joppa, Juarez, Jubbulpore, Kaluga, Kananga, Kandahar, Kandy, Kansas City, Kansas City, Karachi, Karbala, Karl-Marx-Stadt, Katowice, Katsina, Kaunas, Kazan, Kerbala, Kerbela, Khabarovsk, Kharkiv, Kharkov, Kimberley, Kingston-upon Hull, Kirkuk, Kisumu, Kitakyushu, Klaipeda, Knoxville, Kobe, Kolkata, Koln, Korinthos, Kovna, Kovno, Krakau, Krakow, Kuala Lumpur, Kuangchou, Kumasi, Kursk, Kwangchow, Kwangju, Kyoto, L'Aquila, La Spezia, Lagos, Lahore, Lancaster, Lanchou, Lanchow, Lanzhou, Laredo, Las Vegas, Latakia, Lausanne, Le Havre, Leeds, Leicester, Leiden, Leipzig, Leningrad, Lentia, Leon, Leon, Lexington, Leyden, Liege, Liepaja, Lille, Limeira, Limerick, Linz, Liverpool, Lobito, Lodz, Logrono, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Louisville, Loyang, Lubbock, Lubeck, Lublin, Lubumbashi, Lucknow, Luik, Luluabourg, Lund, Luoyang, Lushun, Luxor, Lyallpur, Lynchburg, Lyon, Lyons, Macon, Madras, Maiduguri, Malaga, Malmo, Manchester, Manchester, Mandalay, Mannheim, Maracaibo, Maracay, Marrakech, Marrakesh, Marseille, Marseilles, Mashhad, Matamoros, Mawlamyine, Mazar-i-Sharif, Mazatlan, Mbeya, Medan, Medellin, Medina, Memel, Memphis, Memphis, Merida, Mesa, Meshed, Messina, Mexicali, Miami, Miami Beach, Milan, Milano, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Mobile, Molotov, Mombasa, Montego Bay, Monterrey, Montreal, Morgantown, Moron, Mosul, Motor City, Motown, Moukden, Moulmein, Muenchen, Mukalla, Mukden, Mumbai, Munich, Murmansk, Mwanza, Mycenae, Mysore, Nablus, Nagano, Nagasaki, Nagoya, Naha City, Nakuru, Nalchik, Namur, Nan-chang, Nan-ning, Nanchang, Nancy, Nanjing, Nanking, Nanning, Nantes, Naples, Napoli, Natal, New Haven, New Orleans, New York, New York City, Newark, Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newport, Newport, Newport News, Niagara Falls, Nicaea, Nice, Nidaros, Nijmegen, Nineveh, Nizhni Novgorod, Nizhnyi Novgorod, Norfolk, Northampton, Nova Lisboa, Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Nuremberg, Nurnberg, Nyala, Oakland, Oaxaca, Oaxaca de Juarez, Odesa, Odessa, Odessa, Old Delhi, Omaha, Omdurman, Omiya, Omsk, Oporto, Oran, Orizaba, Orlando, Orleans, Orumiyeh, Osaka, Osasco, Ostrava, Oujda, Oviedo, Oxford, Padova, Padua, Palermo, Papeete, Para, Parkersburg, Pasadena, Patavium, Paterson, Patrai, Patras, Peoria, Pergamum, Perm, Pernambuco, Persepolis, Peshawar, Peterburg, Petrograd, Philadelphia, Philippi, Philippopolis, Pinsk, Pisa, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh of the South, Plano, Plovdiv, Pompeii, Pompey, Port Arthur, Port Sudan, Portland, Portland, Porto, Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Potsdam, Provo, Puebla, Puebla de Zaragoza, Pueblo, Punta Arenas, Pusan, Qandahar, Queen City, Quezon City, Qum, Racine, Ragusa, Rasht, Rawalpindi, Reading, Recife, Reims, Reno, Resht, Rheims, Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Riverside, Roanoke, Rochester, Rockford, Rosario, Rostock, Rostov, Rostov na Donu, Rostov on Don, Rotterdam, Safaqis, Saida, Saigon, Saint Augustine, Saint John, Saint Louis, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Salem, Salem, Salonica, Salonika, Salzburg, Samarang, Samarcand, Samaria, Samarkand, San Antonio, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, San Juan, San Luis Potosi, San Pedro Sula, San Sebastian, Santa Ana, Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Santa Maria de Belem, Santiago, Santiago, Santiago de Cuba, Santiago de los Caballeros, Santos, Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Goncalo, Sao Joao de Meriti, Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Louis, Sao Paulo, Sapporo, Saragossa, Sarajevo, Saratov, Sardis, Saskatoon, Savannah, Sayda, Schenectady, Scranton, Seattle, Sebastopol, Semarang, Setubal, Sevastopol, Sevilla, Seville, Seyhan, Sfax, Shanghai, Sheffield, Shenyang, Shiraz, Shreveport, Sian, Sidon, Singan, Sioux City, Sioux Falls, Siracusa, Smolensk, Smyrna, Sodom, Soledad, Solingen, Sousse, South Bend, Soweto, Sparta, Split, Spokane, Springfield, Springfield, St. Augustine, St. John, St. Louis, St. Mary of Bethlehem, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Stalingrad, Stalino, Stamboul, Stambul, Stavanger, Strasbourg, Strassburg, Stuttgart, Sucre, Sudbury, Suez, Sur, Susa, Susah, Swansea, Syracuse, Syracuse, T'ien-ching, Tabora, Tabriz, Tabuk, Tacoma, Taegu, Taichung, Taif, Taiyuan, Talien, Tamale, Tammerfors, Tampa, Tampere, Tampico, Tanga, Tangier, Tangiers, Tangshan, Tarabulus, Tarabulus Ash-Sham, Tartu, Tegu, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Tel Aviv-Yalo, Temuco, Tepic, The Hague, Thebes, Thebes, Thessalonica, Thessaloniki, Thorshavn, Thunder Bay, Tianjin, Tientsin, Tijuana, Timbuktu, Tolbukhin, Toledo, Toledo, Torino, Torreon, Toulon, Toulouse, Tours, Toyohashi, Toyonaki, Toyota, Trablous, Trent, Trento, Tripoli, Trondheim, Troy, Tsaritsyn, Tucson, Tulsa, Turin, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Tyre, Ufa, Uppsala, Upsala, Ur, Urmia, Utica, Utica, Utrecht, Valencia, Valencia, Valparaiso, Vancouver, Varna, Vatican City, Venezia, Venice, Veracruz, Verona, Versailles, Vicente Lopez, Victoria de Durango, Villa Hermosa, Villahermosa, Vina del Mar, Virginia Beach, Vladivostok, Volgograd, Waco, Waterbury, Waterford, Weimar, Wheeling, Wichita, Wichita Falls, Wiesbaden, Wilmington, Winchester, Windsor, Windy City, Winston-Salem, Worcester, Worcester, Wroclaw, Wuerzburg, Wuhan, Wurzburg, Xian, Yafo, Yalta, Yekaterinoslav, Yerwa-Maiduguri, Yokohama, Youngstown, Zabrze, Zaragoza, Zaria, Zarqa, Zomba, Zurich


Part holonymcentral city, city center, city centre, civic center, concrete jungle, down town, financial center, inner city, medical center, municipal center

2. city (location) an incorporated administrative district established by state charter


SamplesThe city raised the tax rate.


Broader (hypernym)administrative district, administrative division, territorial division


Part holonymcity district, city limit, city limits, public square, square, uptown

3. city (group) people living in a large densely populated municipality


SamplesThe city voted for Republicans in 1994.


Synonymsmetropolis


Broader (hypernym)municipality









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