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City
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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)
- 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 (chéng shì)
- Danish: by
- Dutch: stad f
- Esperanto: urbo
- Finnish: kaupunki
- French: ville f
- German: Stadt f
- Greek: (poli)
- Hebrew: עיר (Iear) f
- Ido: urbo
- 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
See also
- metropolis
- megalopolis
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