sister city

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Noun

sister city (plural sister cities)

1. A foreign city with which a city has a declared relationship of cordiality.

   Synonym: twin city

   Near-synonym: twin town

   Placetown and Machinville are sister cities in England and France.

Translations

city in a relationship of cordiality

Chinese: Mandarin: 友好城市 (zh) (yǒuhǎo chéngshì), 姐妹城市 (zh) (jiěmèi chéngshì), 姊妹城市 (zh) (zǐmèi chéngshì), 姐妹市 (jiěmèishì), 姊妹市 (zǐmèishì), 姐妹城 (jiěmèichéng), 姊妹城 (zǐmèichéng), 兄弟市 (xiōngdìshì) Danish: venskabsby c Esperanto: ĝemelurbo Estonian: sõpruslinn Finnish: ystävyyskaupunki (fi) French: ville jumelée f German: Partnerstadt (de) f Hungarian: testvérváros (hu) Icelandic: vinabær m Japanese: 姉妹都市 (ja) (しまいとし, shimai-toshi) Kazakh: бауырлас қала (bauyrlas qala) Macedonian: збратимен град m (zbratimen grad) Mongolian: ах дүү хот (ax düü xot) Portuguese: cidade irmã f Russian: го́род-побрати́м (ru) m (górod-pobratím) Spanish: ciudad hermana f Swedish: vänort (sv) c

See also

• to twin