City

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Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Related terms 1.5 See also

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsɪti/
• SAMPA: /"sIti/

Etymology

From French cité which comes from the Latin civitas meaning "an organized community" a "a civilized place".

Noun

city (plural: cities)

1. a large settlement, bigger than a town. In Europe a city is a place that had succeeded to obtain the right to build a city wall, a belfort, etc... from the impoverishing nobility.

Translations

• Basque: hiri
• Breton: keoded f -où pl, kêr f -ioù pl
• Catalan: ciutat f
• Chinese: 城市 (chengshi)
• Danish: by
• Dutch: stad f
• Esperanto: urbo
• Finnish: kaupunki
• French: ville f
• German: Stadt f
• Greek: (poli)
• Hebrew: עיר (Iear) f
• Interlingua: citate
• Italian: città f
• Japanese: 都市 (とし, toshi), 都会 (とかい, tokai)
• Korean: 도시 [都市] (dosi)
• Latin: urbs urbis, civitas -itatis
• Lithuanian: miestas
• Polish miasto n
• Portuguese: cidade
• Romanian: oraş n, cetate f, urbe f
• Romanica: citate f, urbe f
• Russian: город (górad)
• Spanish: ciudad f, urbe f
• Swedish: stad c
• Tagalog: lungsod, syudad
• Vietnamese: thành phố [城舗]
• Volapük: zif

Related terms

• citify
• citizen
• cityscape
• city-state
• civic
• civil

See also

• metropolis
• megalopolis