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(n)
A large, busy city, especially as the main city in an area or country or as distinguished from surrounding rural areas.
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a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts
A continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl.
A surname originating as a patronymic.
The change in a country or region when its population migrates from rural to urban areas.
(US) The part of a city between uptown and downtown.
(chiefly US, Canada) The main business part of a city or town, usually located at or near its center.
A rural habitation of size between a hamlet and a town.
(US, Canada) A subdivision of a county.
(US, law enforcement) A subdivision of a city under the jurisdiction of a specific group of police; the police station situated in that district.
An individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence.
An administrative division of an area.
A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
A person following the pursuits of civil life, especially one who is not an active member of the armed forces.
A small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community.
A central business district of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
An enclosed shopping centre.
A person who lives in or near a given place.
(finance) A financial instrument issued by a municipality.
The residential area near one's home.
(physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.
(countable) A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition.
(adj)
Shared by a community; public.
Australia, British, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa standard spelling of center.
A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.
(uncountable, business, finance, insurance) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
A cosmopolitan person; a cosmopolite.
(often capitalized, dated) A breed of chicken with large bodies, long legs, and feathered shanks.
An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
A particular point or place in physical space.
Located in a specific place.
(economics) A person or firm that owes money; one in debt; one who owes a debt.
The view of the buildings of a city, usually referring to a pictured landscape.
Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
The inhabitant of a metropolis.
That has a citation
(informal) A citation.
(US) Initialism of Public Utility Commission, a regulatory body in various states.
Alternative form of Quebec: A province in eastern Canada. [A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Quebec City. Largest city: Montreal.]
The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
(zoology, agriculture) A male sheep, typically uncastrated.
A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
(general) A rapid transit rail transport system, or a train in such systems, generally underground and serving a metropolitan area.
The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
A language of Papua New Guinea.
(nautical) A flat-bottomed, square-ended boat once used in the Philippines as a lighter to ferry goods between ship and shore
(chiefly used by Muslims and Arabs) Synonym of Jerusalem.
A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
A city in the West Bank, Palestine; holy in both Judaism and Islam.
(historical) A Greek city-state.
A city, the capital of Nablus governorate, West Bank, Palestine.
A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: State of Kuwait. Capital: Kuwait City.
The capital city of the Nineveh governorate, Iraq.
A city in south-central Iraq.
A port city in southeastern Iraq.
A city in northeastern Iraq.
The capital and largest city of Afghanistan.
A city in central Mali.
A district of a city or town (in a country other than China) in which there is a large concentration of Chinese residents and businesses.
(music) sad, mournful
The regional capital and largest city in Chechnya, Russia.
The capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, built on the Miljacka river.
A Chinese surname from Mandarin.
A direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China.
A direct-administered municipality and major city in northern China, between Beijing and the Bohai Bay.
A major prefecture-level city and port, the capital and largest city of Guangdong, in southeastern China.
A subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Liaoning, in northeastern China.
A major subprovincial city of Guangdong, in southeastern China.
The capital and largest city of Montenegro.
A direct-administered municipality and city in western China.
A municipality in various Latin American countries.
A prefecture in south-central Japan.
(anatomy) The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee
A placename:
(cricket) a bar chart representing the number of runs scored in each over (supposed to resemble a skyline of skyscrapers).
The capital city of Ontario, Canada and largest city Canada.
A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Quebec City. Largest city: Montreal.
The capital city of Alberta, Canada.
A city, the county seat of Champaign County, Illinois; named for the city in Ohio.
A male given name from Hebrew.
(countable) A patrilineal surname.
A surname.
A city in San Diego County, California, United States.
A seaport, the largest city in British Columbia, Canada.
the capital and chief port of paraguay
A diminutive of the female given name Rebecca, from Hebrew.