City

See also: city

English

Proper noun

City

1. (soccer, informal) Manchester City Football Club, an English football club.

   City will reportedly look to have a fee for Aguero.

Proper noun

the City

1. (UK) The City of London, the historic core of London where the Roman settlement of Londinium was established.
2. (UK) The United Kingdom's financial industries, which are principally based in the City of London.
3. (New York) The borough of Manhattan, the historic core of New York.
4. Any of several other cities in metropolitan areas (such as San Francisco).

Synonyms

• (City of London): the Square Mile

Related terms

• (London) Hammersmith & City

Translations

UK financial sector

Chinese: Mandarin: 倫敦城 / 伦敦城 (Lúndūn chéng) (City of London), 西堤區 / 西堤区 (Xīdī qū) French: City (fr) f Georgian: ლონდონის სიტი (londonis siṭi), სიტი (siṭi) Japanese: シティ (ja) (Shiti) Korean: 시티 (Siti) Macedonian: Сити n (Siti) Russian: Си́ти m (Síti)

Anagrams

• ICTY

Chinese

Etymology

Clipping of English CityU, short for city university.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sit¹ ti²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sit¹ ti²
    • Yale: sīt tí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sit⁷ ti²
    • Guangdong Romanization: xid¹ ti²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːt̚⁵ tʰiː³⁵/

Proper noun

City

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, informal) CityU; City University of Hong Kong

Synonyms

• 城大 (Chéngdà)

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

City f

1. (finance, with definite article) the City

German

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from city. The feminine gender is likely an analogy to Stadt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪti/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

City f (genitive City, plural Citys)

1. (colloquial) city center, downtown, central business district

   Synonyms: Innenstadt, Stadtmitte, Stadtzentrum

   Wir fahren heute Nachmittag in die City.

   We’re going downtown this afternoon.

Declension

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	City	die	Citys
genitive	einer	der	City	der	Citys
dative	einer	der	City	den	Citys
accusative	eine	die	City	die	Citys

Declension of City [feminine]

Further reading

• “City” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “City” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “City” in Duden online