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central city

noun

a city at the center of a metropolitan area.

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Also called core city.

Compare inner city.

Origin:
1945–50

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central city
noun
the central part of a city [syn: city center]

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"Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates."

-John Ruskin

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