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Central city   /sˈɛntrəl sˈɪti/   Listen
Central city

noun
1.
The central part of a city.  Synonyms: city center, city centre.





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"Central city" Quotes from Famous Books



... of its social life there were several reasons. Above all, it was the character of an ever-increasing number of inhabitants asserting itself. Moreover, the tendency was aided by the fact that as the largest, most important and most central city in the colonies, it became the meeting place for delegates from all the colonies to discuss common problems, and therefore it was incumbent upon Philadelphians to entertain the visitors. And this they did with a lavish hand. From the visit ...
— The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia • Frank Cousins
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... tide of Assyrian and Persian conquests had rolled and then retreated forever. The great rivers—the Nile, the Po, and the Danube—flowed into this basin and its connecting seas, wafting the produce of distant provinces to the great central city on the Tiber. The boundaries of the empire were great oceans, deserts, and mountains, beyond which it was difficult to extend or to retain conquests. On the west was the Atlantic Ocean, unknown and unexplored—that mysterious expanse of waters which filled navigators with awe ...
— The Old Roman World • John Lord
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Words linked to "Central city" :   eye, centre, city, middle, metropolis, urban center, heart, center


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