City

//ˈsɪt.i//

Synonyms for "city" (128 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (26)

archbishopric archdiocese arrondissement bailiwick banlieue barrio bishopric black ghetto blighted area boom town borough bourg bowery burg burgh burghal business district canton central business district central city

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chinatown citified city center city of london

Proper Noun(1 words)

bridgetown

Noun(1 words)

central business district

Strong matches (38)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

21 relation types

More general

5 entries

administrative district administrative division municipality settlement territorial division

More specific

25 entries

15-minute city Hanseatic city agrocity agropolis burg capital capital city cathedral city city on a hill city upon a hill closed city eco-city garden city global city host city megacity

Showing 16 of 25 words.

Antonyms

13 entries

country countryside farm forest rural small small village state suburb suburbs town village wilderness

Synonyms

2 entries

city of london square mile

Related terms

8 entries

Hammersmith & City civic civil megacity megalopolis metropolis multicity municipality

at location

8 entries

bus country county disarray fast food restaurant germany state united states

capable of

5 entries

allow buildings charge sales tax develop plan for recycling garbage honor outstanding citizen number houses

dbpedia language

1 entries

english language

derived

452 entries

15-minute city Adams City Alabama City Aladdin City Alberta City Alexander City Amador City Amelia City Angel City Angeles City Archer City Arkansas City Ashland City Atlantic City Bay City Beaver City

Showing 16 of 452 words.

distinct from

3 entries

country suburb town

etymologically related_to

2 entries

civis hewe

has a

3 entries

fewer trees than forrest many inhabitants many tall buildings

has context

3 entries

australia soccer uk

has property

1 entries

dark

holonym

4 entries

conurbation country sovereign polity state

is a

18 entries

administrative district big noisy place book crowded nasty place group of people highly populated area large town larger than breadbox larger than town market municipality place political entity populated area settlement subdivision of county

Showing 16 of 18 words.

meronym

6 entries

city center downtown neighborhood square uptown urban dweller

part of

1 entries

province

receives action

1 entries

leveled by suitcase nuke

related to

213 entries

agglomeration aggregation and angels apartments apartments skyscrapers apple area areas big big apple big buildings big metro big town big village bigger

Showing 16 of 213 words.

used for

9 entries

businesses commerce concentrations of people to live facilitate industry go shopping live in living in people protection

Translations

382 translations across 254 languages.

Abkhaz

1 entries

ақалақь noun (large settlement)

Adyghe

1 entries

къалэ noun (large settlement)

Afrikaans

1 entries

stad noun (large settlement)

Ahom

1 entries

𑜋𑜦𑜧 noun (large settlement)

Akkadian

1 entries

𒌷 noun (large settlement)

Albanian

1 entries

qytet noun (large settlement)

Ambonese Malay

1 entries

kota noun (large settlement)

Amharic

1 entries

ከተማ noun (large settlement)

Ancient Greek

2 entries

πόλις noun (large settlement)
ἄστυ noun (large settlement)

Arabic

4 entries

بَلَد noun (large settlement)
بَلَد noun (large settlement)
مدِينَة noun (large settlement)
مَدينَة noun (large settlement)

Aragonese

1 entries

ziudá noun (large settlement)

Aramaic

4 entries

כַּרְכָּא noun (large settlement)
מְדִינְתָּא noun (large settlement)
ܟܿܲܪܟܿܵܐ noun (large settlement)
ܡܕܼܝܼܢܬܿܵܐ noun (large settlement)

Argobba

1 entries

ኸተም noun (large settlement)

Armenian

1 entries

քաղաք noun (large settlement)

Aromanian

1 entries

cãsãbã (roa-rup) noun (large settlement)

Assamese

2 entries

চহৰ noun (large settlement)
নগৰ noun (large settlement)

Asturian

1 entries

ciudá noun (large settlement)

Avar

1 entries

шагьар noun (large settlement)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

şəhər noun (large settlement)

Bashkir

1 entries

ҡала noun (large settlement)

Basque

1 entries

hiri noun (large settlement)

Belarusian

2 entries

го́рад noun (large settlement)
ме́ста noun (large settlement)

Bengali

2 entries

নগর noun (large settlement)
শহর noun (large settlement)

Betawi

1 entries

kota noun (large settlement)

Bhojpuri

1 entries

शहर noun (large settlement)

Breton

4 entries

keoded noun (large settlement)
keodedoù noun (large settlement)
kêr noun (large settlement)
kêrioù noun (large settlement)

Bulgarian

1 entries

град noun (large settlement)

Burmese

1 entries

မြို့ noun (large settlement)

Buryat

1 entries

хото noun (large settlement)

Carpathian Rusyn

1 entries

мі́сто noun (large settlement)

Catalan

1 entries

ciutat noun (large settlement)

Cebuano

2 entries

dakbayan noun (large settlement)
siyudad noun (large settlement)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

شار noun (large settlement)

Chagatai

1 entries

آباد noun (large settlement)

Chamicuro

1 entries

chi'nashtalichi noun (large settlement)

Chechen

1 entries

гӏала noun (large settlement)

Chichewa

1 entries

mzinda noun (large settlement)

Chinese

4 entries

чын noun (large settlement)
чынпу noun (large settlement)
чыншы noun (large settlement)
шы noun (large settlement)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

城市 noun (large settlement)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

倫敦城 /伦敦城 name (UK financial sector)
西堤區 /西堤区 name (UK financial sector)
城 noun (large settlement)
城市 noun (large settlement)

Church Slavic

4 entries

градъ noun (large settlement)
мѣсто noun (large settlement)
ⰳⱃⰰⰴⱏ noun (large settlement)
ⰿⱑⱄⱅⱁ noun (large settlement)

Chuvash

1 entries

хула noun (large settlement)

Coptic

1 entries

ⲃⲁⲕⲓ noun (large settlement)

Cornish

1 entries

cita noun (large settlement)

Corsican

1 entries

cità noun (large settlement)

Crimean Tatar

1 entries

şeer noun (large settlement)

Czech

2 entries

město noun (large settlement)
velkoměsto noun (large settlement)

Dalmatian

1 entries

cituot noun (large settlement)

Danish

1 entries

by noun (large settlement)

Dari

1 entries

شَهْر noun (large settlement)

Daur

2 entries

giaabn noun (large settlement)
hotn noun (large settlement)

Dhivehi

1 entries

ޝަހަރު noun (large settlement)

Dolgan

1 entries

гуорат noun (large settlement)

Dongxiang

1 entries

baza noun (large settlement)

Dutch

1 entries

stad noun (large settlement)

East Central German

1 entries

Stoadt noun (large settlement)

Eastern Mari

2 entries

ола noun (large settlement)
ола noun (large settlement)

Eastern Min Chinese

1 entries

城市 noun (large settlement)

Egyptian

1 entries

niwt:t*Z1 noun (large settlement)

Erzya

1 entries

ош noun (large settlement)

Esperanto

2 entries

civito noun (large settlement)
urbo noun (large settlement)

Estonian

1 entries

linn noun (large settlement)

Evenki

2 entries

hɵtɵng noun (large settlement)
город noun (large settlement)

Extremaduran

2 entries

cidá noun (large settlement)
ciá noun (large settlement)

Faroese

1 entries

býur noun (large settlement)

Finnish

4 entries

kaupunki noun (large settlement)
kaupunki noun (settlement granted special status)
keskittymä noun (large amount of something)
keskus noun (large amount of something)

French

4 entries

City name (UK financial sector)
cité noun (large settlement)
grande-ville noun (large settlement)
ville noun (large settlement)

Friulian

1 entries

citât noun (large settlement)

Galician

1 entries

cidade noun (large settlement)

Gallurese

2 entries

cittai noun (large settlement)
zittai noun (large settlement)

Ge'ez

1 entries

ሀገር noun (large settlement)

Georgian

3 entries

ლონდონის სიტი name (UK financial sector)
სიტი name (UK financial sector)
დიდი ქალაქი noun (large settlement)

German

2 entries

Großstadt noun (large settlement)
Stadt noun (large settlement)

Gothic

1 entries

𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐍃 noun (large settlement)

Greek

1 entries

πόλη noun (large settlement)

Gujarati

2 entries

નગર noun (large settlement)
શહેર noun (large settlement)

Haitian Creole

1 entries

vil noun (large settlement)

Hakka Chinese

1 entries

城市 noun (large settlement)

Hausa

1 entries

birni noun (large settlement)

Hawaiian

1 entries

kūlanakauhale noun (large settlement)

Hebrew

1 entries

עִיר noun (large settlement)

Hiligaynon

1 entries

dakbanwa noun (large settlement)

Hindi

2 entries

नगर noun (large settlement)
शहर noun (large settlement)

Hungarian

1 entries

város noun (large settlement)

Hunsrik

1 entries

xtat noun (large settlement)

Icelandic

1 entries

borg noun (large settlement)

Ido

2 entries

civito noun (large settlement)
urbo noun (large settlement)

Indonesian

1 entries

kota noun (large settlement)

Ingush

1 entries

пхье noun (large settlement)

Interlingua

1 entries

citate noun (large settlement)

Iranian Persian

1 entries

شَهْر noun (large settlement)

Irish

2 entries

baile mór noun (large settlement)
cathair noun (large settlement)

Istriot

1 entries

sità noun (large settlement)

Italian

1 entries

città noun (large settlement)

Japanese

4 entries

シティ name (UK financial sector)
市 noun (large settlement)
町 noun (large settlement)
都会 noun (large settlement)

Javanese

2 entries

ꦏꦶꦛ noun (large settlement)
ꦏꦸꦛ noun (large settlement)

Juba Arabic

1 entries

mediina noun (large settlement)

Kabardian

1 entries

къалэ noun (large settlement)

Kaitag

1 entries

шагьар noun (large settlement)

Kalmyk

1 entries

балһсн noun (large settlement)

Kannada

1 entries

ನಗರ noun (large settlement)

Kapampangan

1 entries

lakanbalen noun (large settlement)

Karachay-Balkar

1 entries

шахар noun (large settlement)

Karelian

1 entries

linna noun (large settlement)

Kashubian

1 entries

miasto noun (large settlement)

Kazakh

2 entries

шаһар noun (large settlement)
қала noun (large settlement)

Khakas

2 entries

саар noun (large settlement)
тура noun (large settlement)

Khmer

3 entries

ទីក្រុង noun (large settlement)
នគរ noun (large settlement)
បុរី noun (large settlement)

Komi-Permyak

1 entries

кар noun (large settlement)

Komi-Zyrian

1 entries

кар noun (large settlement)

Konkani

1 entries

xar noun (large settlement)

Korean

4 entries

시티 name (UK financial sector)
도시 noun (large settlement)
시 noun (large settlement)
시내 noun (large settlement)

Kumyk

1 entries

шагьар noun (large settlement)

Kusunda

1 entries

səhər noun (large settlement)

Kyrgyz

3 entries

калаа noun (large settlement)
кен noun (large settlement)
шаар noun (large settlement)

Ladin

1 entries

zità noun (large settlement)

Lao

4 entries

ຊຽງ noun (large settlement)
ທານີ noun (large settlement)
ນະຄອນ noun (large settlement)
ເມືອງ noun (large settlement)

Latin

2 entries

civitas noun (large settlement)
urbs noun (large settlement)

Leonese

1 entries

ciudá noun (large settlement)

Lezgin

1 entries

шегьер noun (large settlement)

Ligurian

2 entries

çittæ noun (large settlement)
çitæ noun (large settlement)

Lithuanian

1 entries

miestas noun (large settlement)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries

město noun (large settlement)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

Stad noun (large settlement)

Lü

4 entries

ᦵᦋᧂ noun (large settlement)
ᦵᦙᦲᧂ noun (large settlement)
ᦵᦞᦇ noun (large settlement)
ᨾᩮᩥ᩠ᨦ noun (large settlement)

Macedonian

2 entries

Сити name (UK financial sector)
град noun (large settlement)

Malagasy

2 entries

monina noun (large settlement)
tanambe noun (large settlement)

Malay

3 entries

bandar noun (large settlement)
bandar raya noun (large settlement)
kota noun (large settlement)

Malayalam

1 entries

നഗരം noun (large settlement)

Maltese

1 entries

belt noun (large settlement)

Manchu

2 entries

ᡥᠣᡨᠣᠨ noun (large settlement)
ᡥᡝᠴᡝᠨ noun (large settlement)

Manx

2 entries

ard-valley noun (large settlement)
caayr noun (large settlement)

Marathi

2 entries

नगर noun (large settlement)
शहर noun (large settlement)

Maricopa

1 entries

vakpaly noun (large settlement)

Mehri

1 entries

رحبيت noun (large settlement)

Middle English

1 entries

cite noun (large settlement)

Moksha

1 entries

ошсь noun (large settlement)

Mongolian

2 entries

хот noun (large settlement)
ᠬᠣᠲᠠ noun (large settlement)

Māori

2 entries

tāone noun (large settlement)
tāone nui noun (large settlement)

Nahuatl

1 entries

altepetl noun (large settlement)

Nanai

1 entries

хотон noun (large settlement)

Navajo

2 entries

kin haalʼá noun (large settlement)
kin nitsaago dah naazhjaaʼígíí noun (large settlement)

Nepali

1 entries

सहर noun (large settlement)

Nobiin

1 entries

diffi noun (large settlement)

Nogai

1 entries

кала noun (large settlement)

North Frisian

1 entries

steed noun (large settlement)

Northern Kurdish

2 entries

bajar noun (large settlement)
şar noun (large settlement)

Northern Yukaghir

1 entries

гуорат noun (large settlement)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

by noun (large settlement)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

by noun (large settlement)

Nuosu

1 entries

ꇓꈓ noun (large settlement)

Occitan

1 entries

ciutat noun (large settlement)

Odia

3 entries

ନଗର noun (large settlement)
ମହାନଗର noun (large settlement)
ସହର noun (large settlement)

Ojibwe

1 entries

gichi-oodena noun (large settlement)

Old East Slavic

3 entries

городъ noun (large settlement)
градъ noun (large settlement)
мѣсто noun (large settlement)

Old English

1 entries

burg noun (large settlement)

Old French

1 entries

cité noun (large settlement)

Old Galician-Portuguese

1 entries

cidade noun (large settlement)

Old Norse

2 entries

borg noun (large settlement)
staðr noun (large settlement)

Old Nubian

1 entries

ⲇⲡ̅ⲡ noun (large settlement)

Orok

1 entries

хотто noun (large settlement)

Oromo

1 entries

magaalaa noun (large settlement)

Oroqen

1 entries

kutuun noun (large settlement)

Ossetian

2 entries

горӕт noun (large settlement)
сахар noun (large settlement)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

شهر noun (large settlement)
كنت noun (large settlement)

Pali

1 entries

nagara noun (large settlement)

Pannonian Rusyn

2 entries

варош noun (large settlement)
город noun (large settlement)

Papiamentu

1 entries

siudat noun (large settlement)

Pashto

1 entries

ښار noun (large settlement)

Pela

1 entries

mjuʔ⁵⁵ noun (large settlement)

Pennsylvania German

2 entries

Schtadt noun (large settlement)
Schtedt noun (large settlement)

Persian

1 entries

شَهْر noun (large settlement)

Phoenician

1 entries

𐤀𐤄𐤋 noun (large settlement)

Piedmontese

1 entries

sità noun (large settlement)

Plautdietsch

2 entries

Grootstaut noun (large settlement)
Staut noun (large settlement)

Polabian

1 entries

vaikă noun (large settlement)

Polish

2 entries

City name (UK financial sector)
miasto noun (large settlement)

Pontic Greek

1 entries

πολιτεία noun (large settlement)

Portuguese

2 entries

cidade noun (large settlement)
urbe noun (large settlement)

Punjabi

3 entries

شہر noun (large settlement)
نگر noun (large settlement)
ਸ਼ਹਿਰ noun (large settlement)

Quechua

1 entries

llaqta noun (large settlement)

Romagnol

1 entries

zitê noun (large settlement)

Romanian

4 entries

cetate noun (large settlement)
metropolă noun (large settlement)
municipiu noun (large settlement)
oraș noun (large settlement)

Romansch

1 entries

citad noun (large settlement)

Russian

3 entries

Си́ти name (UK financial sector)
го́род noun (large settlement)
град noun (large settlement)

Sanskrit

1 entries

नगर noun (large settlement)

Sarikoli

1 entries

obod noun (large settlement)

Sassarese

1 entries

ziddai noun (large settlement)

Saterland Frisian

1 entries

Stääd noun (large settlement)

Scots

2 entries

ceety noun (large settlement)
ceity noun (large settlement)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries

baile mòr noun (large settlement)
dùn noun (large settlement)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

grȃd noun (large settlement)
гра̑д noun (large settlement)

Shor

1 entries

тура noun (large settlement)

Siberian Tatar

1 entries

тора noun (large settlement)

Sicilian

2 entries

citati noun (large settlement)
cità noun (large settlement)

Silesian

1 entries

miasto noun (large settlement)

Sinhalese

1 entries

නගරය noun (large settlement)

Skolt Sami

2 entries

gåårad noun (large settlement)
lâ´nn noun (large settlement)

Slovak

1 entries

mesto noun (large settlement)

Slovene

1 entries

mésto noun (large settlement)

Somali

1 entries

magaalo noun (large settlement)

Southern Altai

2 entries

кала noun (large settlement)
тура noun (large settlement)

Spanish

2 entries

ciudad noun (large settlement)
urbe noun (large settlement)

Sranan Tongo

1 entries

foto noun (large settlement)

Sumerian

1 entries

𒌷 noun (large settlement)

Sundanese

1 entries

ᮊᮧᮒ noun (large settlement)

Swahili

1 entries

mji noun (large settlement)

Swedish

1 entries

stad noun (large settlement)

Sylheti

1 entries

ꠘꠉꠞ noun (large settlement)

Tagalog

2 entries

lungsod noun (large settlement)
syudad noun (large settlement)

Tajik

2 entries

обод noun (large settlement)
шаҳр noun (large settlement)

Talysh

1 entries

şəhr noun (large settlement)

Tamil

1 entries

நகரம் noun (large settlement)

Taos

1 entries

plòsoʼóna noun (large settlement)

Tarifit

2 entries

tamdint noun (large settlement)
tandint noun (large settlement)

Tatar

2 entries

кала noun (large settlement)
шәһәр noun (large settlement)

Tausug

1 entries

daira noun (large settlement)

Telugu

1 entries

నగరం noun (large settlement)

Tetum

1 entries

sidade noun (large settlement)

Thai

4 entries

กรุง noun (large settlement)
นคร noun (large settlement)
เชียง noun (large settlement)
เมือง noun (large settlement)

Tibetan

2 entries

གྲོང་ཁྱེར noun (large settlement)
རྒྱལ་ས noun (large settlement)

Tigrinya

1 entries

ከተማ noun (large settlement)

Tocharian B

1 entries

rīye noun (large settlement)

Tongan

1 entries

kolo noun (large settlement)

Turkish

2 entries

kent noun (large settlement)
şehir noun (large settlement)

Turkmen

1 entries

şäher noun (large settlement)

Tuvan

1 entries

хоорай noun (large settlement)

Udege

1 entries

хото noun (large settlement)

Udmurt

1 entries

кар noun (large settlement)

Ugaritic

1 entries

𐎓𐎗 noun (large settlement)

Ukrainian

2 entries

град noun (large settlement)
мі́сто noun (large settlement)

Ulch

1 entries

хото noun (large settlement)

Upper Sorbian

1 entries

město noun (large settlement)

Urdu

2 entries

شَہَر noun (large settlement)
نَگَر noun (large settlement)

Uyghur

1 entries

شەھەر noun (large settlement)

Uzbek

1 entries

shahar noun (large settlement)

Venetan

2 entries

sità noun (large settlement)
çità noun (large settlement)

Vietnamese

4 entries

phố noun (large settlement)
thành noun (large settlement)
thành phố noun (large settlement)
đô thị noun (large settlement)

Volapük

1 entries

zif noun (large settlement)

Võro

1 entries

liin noun (large settlement)

Walloon

1 entries

veye noun (large settlement)

Welsh

2 entries

caer noun (large settlement)
dinas noun (large settlement)

West-Frisian

1 entries

stêd noun (large settlement)

Wolof

1 entries

dëkk noun (large settlement)

Wu Chinese

1 entries

城市 noun (large settlement)

Xhosa

1 entries

idolophu noun (large settlement)

Yaghnobi

1 entries

шаҳр noun (large settlement)

Yakut

2 entries

куорат noun (large settlement)
хото noun (large settlement)

Yiddish

1 entries

שטאָט noun (large settlement)

Yoruba

1 entries

ìlú noun (large settlement)

Yup'ik

1 entries

nunarpak noun (large settlement)

Zazaki

2 entries

bajar (diq) noun (large settlement)
suk (diq) noun (large settlement)

Zhuang

3 entries

hawsingz noun (large settlement)
si noun (large settlement)
singz noun (large settlement)

Zulu

1 entries

ithawini noun (large settlement)

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Paris is the most beautiful city in the world.

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Florence is the most beautiful city in Italy.

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Nara is a quiet and beautiful city.

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How many schools are there in your city?

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City

Synonyms for "city" (128 found)

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Translations

Abkhaz

Adyghe

Afrikaans

Ahom

Akkadian

Albanian

Ambonese Malay

Amharic

Ancient Greek

Arabic

Aragonese

Aramaic

Argobba

Armenian

Aromanian

Assamese

Asturian

Avar

Azerbaijani

Bashkir

Basque

Belarusian

Bengali

Betawi

Bhojpuri

Breton

Bulgarian

Burmese

Buryat

Carpathian Rusyn

Catalan

Cebuano

Central Kurdish

Chagatai

Chamicuro

Chechen

Chichewa

Chinese

Chinese Cantonese

Chinese Mandarin

Church Slavic

Chuvash

Coptic

Cornish

Corsican

Crimean Tatar

Czech

Dalmatian

Danish

Dari

Daur

Dhivehi